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Efficiency and technical progress in traditional and modern agriculture: evidence from rice production in China
Author(s) -
Xu Xiaosong,
Jeffrey Scott R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1998.tb00495.x
Subject(s) - allocative efficiency , production (economics) , china , production efficiency , economics , dual (grammatical number) , stochastic frontier analysis , production–possibility frontier , agriculture , productive efficiency , frontier , rice farming , economic efficiency , agricultural economics , microeconomics , engineering , geography , mechanical engineering , art , literature , archaeology
Productive efficiency for Chinese hybrid and conventional rice production is estimated using a dual stochastic frontier efficiency decomposition model. Results reveal significant differences in technical and allocative efficiency between conventional and hybrid rice production, and indicate significant regional efficiency differences in hybrid rice production, but not in conventional rice production.