Resource allocation and productivity of cereal state farms in Ethiopia

Mesfin Mirotchie and Daniel Taylor

Agricultural Economics, 1993, vol. 8, issue 3, 187-197

Abstract: Using a translog production function, cereal production on state farms in Ethiopia between 1980 and 1985 was analyzed. The farms were found to be operating at constant returns to scale. Manual labor was under‐utilized, while machinery and other modern inputs were over‐utilized. Elasticities of substitution between labor and these over‐utilized inputs were low.

Date: 1993
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