Productivity in Chinese Provincial Agriculture

Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 49 Số 3 - Trang 378-392 - 1998
David K. Lambert1, Elliott Parker1
1The authors are Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, respectively, at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557, USA. Financial assistance from the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station is sincerely appreciated.

Tóm tắt

Technical change, technical efficiency and multifactor productivity indices are reported for a multiple‐output, multiple‐input production technology using Chinese provincial data for the 1979‐95 period. Results show significant variation in productivity change from year to year and province to province. Using panel methods, we regress the three production indices on several factors important in explaining productivity changes. Decollectivisation in the early 1980s accounts for a significant expansion of the frontier, while rural industrialisation decreased agricultural productivity. Productivity is also sensitive to relative grain prices, to natural disasters such as flood and drought, and proximity of the provinces to coastal areas.

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