Eficiência técnica e heterogeneidade tecnológica na agropecuária das regiões semiárida e não semiárida do Nordeste brasileiro

Felipe Pinto da Silva, Jair Andrade Araujo, Edward Costa and José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), 2019, vol. 57, issue 3

Abstract: This study aims to analyze the technological differences in agricultural production between the municipalities in the semiarid and non-semiarid Northeast Brazil. It uses the technological meta-frontier model proposed by Battese, Rao e O’Donnell (2004), and O’Donnell, Rao e Battese (2008), for responding to what extent these regional differences influence the efficiency of production. It was observed that the hypothesis that the municipalities belonging to the semiarid and non-semiarid face with different production opportunities. The results indicated, that comparing both regions, the non-semiarid region has the highest average technical efficiency with reference to meta-frontier.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.341164

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