[PDF] Agricultural Production Efficiency In Meitan County China eBook

Author : Shenggen Fan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000237613

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This study by Shenggen Fan makes three important and original contributions. It is the first study to report regional patterns of productivity growth in Chinese agriculture. There have been dramatic differences in output and productivity growth among Chinese regions. The second contribution is to measure the separate effects of technical change and institutional reform on productivity growth. Much of the rapid growth in agricultural production and in productivity since the late 1970s has been a consequence of an important series of institutional reforms. The third contribution is the first test of the induced innovation hypothesis against experience in a centrally planned economy. Regional patterns of productivity growth are consistent with the hypothesis that the path of technical change has been responsive to regional differences in resource endowments.

Author : Wenqiang Bao
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic dissertations
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This dissertation studies the production efficiency and productivity of agriculture in Shanxi province after Chinese economic reforms. The main question about the economic aspects of agriculture we want to address is the performance of Chinese agriculture since 1980. We use a newly constructed county-level input and output quantity data set to obtain technical efficiency and measure the Malmquist productivity index and its components. We first use the nonparametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to obtain Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency of individual counties in Shanxi province during year 1981-2010 in a multi-output, multi-input production framework. We disaggregate overall efficiency into two components representing output and input efficiencies and evaluate the contribution of individual outputs and inputs to the measured level of overall efficiency. We also examine the utilization of modern agricultural inputs compared to the traditional inputs. Next, We investigate the temporal and spatial nature of productivity growth of Chinese agriculture in Shanxi province. The results indicate that growth in the Malmquist productivity index over the 1983–2010 periods was 1.2% annually for the entire province. Decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index shows that technical change contributed to the growth in productivity by 0.8% per year, while efficiency change increased productivity by 0.4% per year. The results also show that the Malmquist index of productivity changes is fast-, moderate- and slow-growing in different groups. The trend of the growth of productivity is also explained in this dissertation. Finally, across county variation in the DEA measure of efficiency and its components is investigated. We identify a number of important factors and discuss their relevance as determinants of efficiency in agricultural production in Shanxi province. We also evaluate the impact of three important policy changes (named, China’s admission to WTO (2001), abolition of agricultural tax (2006), and subsidization of agricultural machinery (2007)) on agricultural efficiency at both national and county level. An analysis of the measured efficiency level can help to identify factors that enhance or hinder efficient resource utilization. This becomes helpful for public policy for improving efficiency.

Author : Shujie Yao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349235539

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This book explains how policy changes affect farmers' production incentives and efficiency of resource allocation within and outside agriculture in modern China, paying particular attention to the effects of technical inputs on yield and efficiency of spatial crop production pattern. Drawing experiences of agricultural development in different periods after independence and employing two different quantitative techniques, it concludes that government's long term tendency to undermine the role of agriculture, lack of state investment and the inconsistency of market reforms are three major threats to sustained grain production and agricultural growth in China.

Author : Huy Nguyen
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2014
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The paper uses data of 29 provinces in China from 1983 to 1995 to estimates the effects of cultivated land, mechanical area, and market factors such as prices, natural conditions and agricultural investment on agricultural output during this period. The estimated results show that a substantial proportion of the variation of China's agricultural output during the period 1985-1995 is due to technical inefficiency. The cultivated land, farmers' agricultural investment, agricultural terms of trade and adverse weather are main reasons that can explain the slowdown of China's agricultural growth from 1985 to 1995.The findings of the study are significant because they involve problems of urbanization, the property right of land or economies of scales, the terms of trade and environmental degradation, which causes environmental pollution, can influence the sustainability of agricultural production. Therefore, the promotion of agricultural reforms, reducing adverse effects of urbanization and improving technical efficiency will contribute to improving China's agricultural productivity.

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Page : pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2004
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This dissertation deals with the off-farm labor supply of Chinese agricultural households. The data used in this study are from the World Bank's 1995 North and Northeast China Living Standards Survey. The objectives are two fold. The first objective explores the relationship between the farm operators' off-farm labor supply and the household's farming efficiency, and identifies the factors affecting the farm operators' off-farm labor supply. Alternative approaches are used to measure farming efficiency. The theoretical model predicts an inverse relationship between farming efficiency and off-farm labor supply. However, the empirical results show that the crop production technical efficiency is positively related to off-farm labor supply and the agricultural production technical efficiency exhibits no significant effect on off-farm labor supply. There appears to be a surplus of labor in the agrarian sector in China. Restrictions on the movement of labor among regions and in the reallocation of farmland serve to maintain this surplus and thus bring about economic inefficiencies. The second objective investigates the switching nature of the operator's off-farm labor supply depending on the spouse's participation status in off-farm labor markets. An endogenous switching regression model shows that the spouse's participation status is endogenous to the operator's off-farm labor supply decision. The off-farm labor supply behavior of operators with spouses working off-farm exhibits some differences from that of the operators with spouses' not working off-farm. The results support that the agricultural household is a more relevant decision unit for resource allocation than is its individual members.

Author : Yuan Ma
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2021
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China's agricultural productivity has achieved remarkable accomplishments in agricultural sector after China's accession to World Trade Organization (WTO). According to National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC), the total meat production in 2018 is 43% more than in 2000, and the total cereal production in 2018 is 51% more than in 2000. However, the rapid development of agriculture is associated with environmental pollution. Since China's rice output has quadrupled compared to the level in 1949, the rice production growth has serious repercussions on environment, which results in severe ...