Productivity is a fundamental source of a larger income stream bharati and fulginiti 2008, while agricultural productivity determines the ability of physical elements and human capital to help. Pdf determinants of agriculture productivity growth in pakistan. Sources and determinants of agricultural growth and productivity in. Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout africa, since the majority of the continents poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Pooled ordinary least square pols, fixed effects fe and random effects re model were used to examine the relationship between productivity and income. This paper examines the influences of policies and other factors on agricultural productivity growth among 32 ssa between 1977 and 2005. Determinants of access to credit among rural farmers in. Introduction the objective of this study is to estimate links between socioeconomic and biophysical factors, and agricultural productivity among smallholders in the kenyan central highlands. Agricultural and food policy productivity analysis. Determinants of the productivity of teff in ethiopia.
The poor performance of the agricultural sector, and particularly its declining productivity has been identified as an important determinant of poverty in kenya. Introduction in agricultural productivity in africa. Home ifpri publications agricultural productivity in africa. Agriculture is a fundamental instrument for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and enhanced food security in developing countries. The particulars of these studies have varied depending on the researchers specific interests, but there is a common thread. Determinants of agricultural productivity in india. Revisiting the determinants of productivity growth. Credit has done a thousand times more than enrich mankind than the gold mines in the world. They have documented, virtually without exception, enormous and. Fertilizer is one of the most important technologies in increasing food production in the world. It explored inflation, real exchange rate, labour force, government expenditure and climaterainfall as the.
The results show that the variation of productivity is the most sensitive to physical infrastructure, followed by. The impact of agricultural productivity on welfare growth. Determinants of the agricultural productivity growth among romanian regions camelia burja1 abstract. This study attempts to modestly undertake an empirical analysis to understand the issues of agricultural labour productivity measured in different dimensions and their determinants and, accordingly, their implications for agricultural growth. Home ifpri publications introduction in agricultural productivity in africa. Agricultural productivity in eac region 19652010 trends. Pooled ordinary least square pols, fixed effects fe and random effects re model were used to examine the relationship between productivity and. Critical factors hampering agricultural productivity in. Determinants of agricultural productivity in malawi, research theses 302084, collaborative masters program in agricultural and applied economics.
Labor productivity of the agricultural sector in greece. It explored inflation, real exchange rate, labour force, government expenditure and climaterainfall as the factors determining agricultural productivity. In this analysis of capitals role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed the authors to advance the crosscountry study of production functions. Klenow 2009, for example, find even larger productivity differences in china and india, with average 9010 tfp ratios over 5. Pdf fast growing agriculture total factor productivity is necessary for ensuring food security. Pooled ordinary least square p ols, fixed effects f e and random effects. Determinants of agricultural productivity in malawi phiri, shakira. Determinants of agricultural productivity in malawi, research theses 302084, collaborative masters program in agricultural and applied. Determinants of regional productivity in agriculture the differences in the productivity of the regional agri cultural sector can be attributed to a vast number of factors, which can be classified into two basic categories. Government is one major factor that produces vulnerability to foodinsecurity or. Determinants of agricultural growth in indonesia, the.
The study was funded by the banks research support budget under the research project determinants of agricultural growth rpo 67903. This paper aims at investigating the determinants of agricultural productivity and rural household income in ethiopia. The study used partial factor productivity given by physical output over factor inputs. But the research on trends and determinants of agricultural productivity is scanty. In the existing literature, depending on the context and type of agricultural technologies considered, the determinants of the adoption of agricultural technologies are numerous and varied. Productivity, the efficiency with which this conversion occurs, has been a topic of particular interest. Prasad department of economics banaras hindu university journal of emerging knowledge on emerging markets volume 1 issue 1 november 2009 introduction. Land and water related factors such as farmwater course location, quality of land, sources of water, quality and quantity of water and timing of water application, etc. Productivity is the synthetic expression of the efficiency with which production factors are being used and mattes the competitiveness of economic systems. Some determinants to agricultural productivity semantic scholar. Probit estimates for determinants of modern agricultural inputs. Chapter 2 intertemporal trends in agricultural productivity 25 samuel benin and alejandro ninpratt chapter 3 spatial patterns of agricultural productivity 105 stanley wood, zhe guo, and ulrike woodsichra chapter 4 typology of agricultural productivity zones 3 bingxin yu and zhe guo chapter 5 agricultural intensification and fertilizer use 199. Some determinants to agricultural productivity an application to the kenyan highlands 1.
Determinants of agricultural productivity in malawi. There are considerable variations in the productivity of plots growing teff across ethiopia. Firstly, although agricultural productivity has been extensively studied at international e. Request pdf determinants of agricultural productivity in india. The findings lead to a number of policy implications. In addition to these traditional factors, we also include other. Larson is an economist in the commodity policy and analysis unit at the world bank. American journal of research communication, 20, 17. Consequently, the examination of the determinants of agricultural insurance demand will allow evaluating the effect of such determinants on agricultural productivity, management of yield risks, agricultural investment opportunity and stability of the agricultural insurance market. Revisiting the determinants of productivity growth the existing empirical and theoretical literature highlights several potential determinants of productivity growth among which inflation, trade openness, the level of education, and several institutional factors.
Trends, patterns, and determinants presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in african agriculture. Pdf a study on trend and determinants of agricultural. Determinants of agricultural growth in indonesia, the philippines, and thailand yair mundlak, donald f. In this paper, we investigate the impact of agricultural productivity on household welfare growth taking explicitly into account the potential endogeneity of. Innovation, education, efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions young eun kim norman v. September 1997 capital is important to agricultural production, so policies that improve access to agricultural capital will facilitate growth, if the capital is used efficiently. Larson and rita butzer march 2002 yair mundlak is professor emeritus of economics at the university of chicago and the hebrew university of jerusalem. Larson is an economist in the commodity policy and analysis unit at the world. Labor productivity has been rising much faster than land productivity and average farm size has increasedagricultural labour has been falling more rapidly than. Agricultural development in india since independence. As a result, the correlations between agricultural productivity growth and economic growth are empirically well demonstrated, but the causal relationships are less clear. A study on progress, performance, and determinants amarnath tripathi agriculture economic research unit institute of economic growth a. An econometric analysis the main aim of this paper is to examine both short run and long run effects of various factors on.
According to hussain and perera, 2004 these factors include. In the existing literature, depending on the context and type of agricultural technologies considered, the determinants of the adoption of. Alvarez and arias, 2004, bojnec and latruffe, 20, helfand and. Agricultural productivity in eac region 19652010 trends and determinants joseph karugia, stella massawe, paul guthiga and eric macharia october, 20 paper presented at the international symposium and exhibition on the agricultural development in the eac partner states at the 50 years of independence 4th to 8th november, 20 kampala, uganda. Dec 20, 2016 there are considerable variations in the productivity of plots growing teff across ethiopia. Chapter 73 agricultural productivity and economic growth. To analyse the determinants of total factor productivity, the data on government expenditure on research and education, extension and farmers training, rural literacy, canal irrigation.
The determinants of agricultural productivity and rural household income in ethiopia tessema urgessa1 abstract this paper aims at investigating the determinants of agricultural productivity and rural household income in ethiopia. The determinants of agricultural productivity and rural. We hypothesize that quality of soil conservation, agricultural inputs. Agricultural labour productivity and its determinants in. Determinants of productivity of the farm households 67 4. Giannakis and bruggeman, 2015, hayami and ruttan, 1970, headey et al. It explored inflation, real exchange rate, labour force, government expenditure. There are number of studies on the agricultural sector in chittoor district. Economic and sociocultural determinants of agricultural. The study employed an interdisciplinary approach to explicate the association between health and agriculture in rural nigeria. Determinants of access to credit among rural farmers in oyo. We quantify the relationship between the productivity growth and an overall determinant index.
September 1997 capital is important to agricultural production, so policies that improve access to agricultural capital will facilitate growth, if the capital is used. It brings together analyses of a unique mix of data sources and evaluations. Critical factors hampering agricultural productivity in ethiopia. Determinants of fertilizer use among smallholder food crop farmers in ondo state, nigeria. This study aims to analyze agricultural productivity growth among romanian regions. Oct 21, 2015 this paper aims at investigating the determinants of agricultural productivity and rural household income in ethiopia.
Determinants of agricultural productivity in malawi agecon. Hence, this papers purpose is to econometrically estimate the determinants to agricultural productivity based on a set of explanatory variables. It argues that agricultural productivity growth is. In this paper, we investigate the impact of agricultural productivity on household welfare growth taking explicitly into account the potential endogeneity of agricultural productivity using exogenous climate and biophysical variables as instrument variables. In this paper we aim to fill four main gaps in the research of agricultural productivity in the european union eu. The model we estimate is a cobbdouglas production function, which specifies agricultural productivity to be determined by labour supply, material inputs, inter.
Hence the empirical, scientific, inductive, factorfinding investigational study on. These confirm that indian economy was a backward and agricultural based economy at the time of independence. Total factor productivity growth and its determinants in. Labour productivity is measured as the ratio of total agricultural output to total labour input which can be located in the broader framework of growth. In this analysis of capitals role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed mundlak, larson, and butzer to advance the crosscountry. Among these, some of the most critical ones are the following. This study sought to identify the determinants of agricultural productivity in kenya. The impact of agricultural productivity on welfare growth of.
Larson, and rita butzer yair mundlak is a professor in the economics department, university of chicago. While measuring the presence and severity of farmers poor health conditions in economic terms, the study determined the. However, merely recognition of credit as a condition for agricultural growth is not sufficient to guarantee increase agricultural productivity. The first category encompasses those which are linked to the structure of agricultural enterprises, and can include. The major drivers for productivity differences appear to be the levels of input use, the management practices employed, the age of the operator, the ease of access to markets, and the level of engagement in extension efforts. Factors affecting agricultural production in tigray region, northern ethiopia by bihon kassa abrha submitted in accordance with the requirement for the degree of doctor of literature and philosophy in the subject development studies at the university of south africa supervisor. Agricultural productivity change is explained by many factors. Agricultural productivity in subsaharan africa ssa remains low and is falling behind the rest of the world, but evidence indicates that it has improved in recent decades, at least in some countries. Revisiting international experiences claudio bravoortega daniel lederman abstract this paper makes three contributions to the literature on agricultural. Trends, patterns, and determinants reference url share.
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