 Farm machinery use, off†farm employment and farm performance in ChinaWanglin Ma, Alan Renwick and R. Quentin Grafton Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018, vol. 62, issue 2, 279-298 Abstract: We analyse the joint impacts of farm machinery use and off†farm employment on maize yields and agrochemical expenses from a household survey of 493 farmers in China. Our findings are obtained from an innovative two†stage econometric procedure that combines a bivariate ordered probit model with an endogeneity†corrected ordinary least square regression model. The results show that farmers are jointly making decisions to use farm machines and to work off the farm and that these two household activities affect maize yields and agrochemical expenses in different ways. We show that farm machinery use significantly increases both maize yields and agrochemical expenses, while off†farm employment significantly decreases agrochemical expenses. Our findings highlight the importance of additional machinery use in increasing farm production; the need to account for possible endogeneity in estimation; and the statistical significance of key household characteristics (gender, education, and household size) on overall farm production. Date: 2018 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ajarec:v:62:y:2018:i:2:p:279-298 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is currently edited by John Rolfe, Lin Crase and John Tisdell More articles in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Contact information at EDIRC. |
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