Eficiência técnica da produção agrícola dos países da América Latina e do Caribe

Lucas David Ribeiro Reis, Rogério César Pereira de Araújo, Jair Andrade Araújo and João Ricardo Ferreira de Lima

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), 2020, vol. 58, issue 4

Abstract: This article studies the technical efficiency and the total productivity of agricultural factors in the countries of Latin America and of Caribbean. For this, it was applied the stochastic production frontier approach and the Malmquist productivity index. The data used were the value of production and the quantity of agricultural inputs from the years 1991 to 2012. The results showed that all countries presented technical inefficiency of agricultural production over the period. The variables that significantly explained the inefficiency of agricultural production were credit and energy consumption in agriculture, which represented an innovation in this area. The Malmquist productivity index showed that there were no gains in total factor productivity.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.341131

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