Efficiency and Technology Gap in China's Agriculture: A Regional META-Frontier Analysis

Zhuo (Adam) Chen and Shunfeng Song ()

No 06-005, Working Papers from University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper utilizes a unique county-level dataset to examine technical efficiency and technology gap in China’s agriculture. We classify the counties into four regions with distinctive levels of economic development, and hence production technologies. A meta-frontier analysis is applied to the counties. We find that although the eastern counties have the highest efficiency scores with respect to the regional frontier but the northeastern region leads in terms of agricultural production technology nationwide. Meanwhile, the mean efficiency of the northeastern counties is particularly low, suggesting technology and knowledge diffusion within region might help to improve production efficiency and thus output.

Keywords: China’s grain production; county-level; metafrontier; stochastic production frontier; technical efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 N55 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-cna, nep-dev, nep-eff, nep-geo and nep-tra
Date: 2006-12
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