Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach

Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan

No 97508, EPTD Discussion Papers from CGIAR, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: A Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavior assumption about equal marginal returns of non-land inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. Multi-output technologies for seven regions over more than two decades are estimated, and input allocations for each province are recovered simultaneously. The estimated multi-output production technology and input allocations imply that China may have greater grain production potentials than previously thought.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 1999-09
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Journal Article: Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach (2001)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.97508

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