Evaluation of total factor productivity and environmental efficiency of agriculture in nine East Asian countries

Truc Linh Le, Pai-Po Lee, Ke Chung Peng and Rebecca H. Chung
Additional contact information
Truc Linh Le: School of Agriculture and Aquaculture, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, Vietnam
Pai-Po Lee: Department of Tropical Agriculture and International Cooperation, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
Ke Chung Peng: Department of Agribusiness Management, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
Rebecca H. Chung: Department of Tropical Agriculture and International Cooperation, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Agricultural Economics, 2019, vol. 65, issue 6, 249-258

Abstract: This study assessed the change in productivity and environmental efficiency of agriculture for nine East Asian countries for the time period from 2002 to 2010. Data were collected and then analysed by data envelopment analysis (DEA) approaches, including Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index and slacks-based measure (SBM) with the consideration of undesirable outputs. The results showed that there existed relatively large differences in productivity growth and environmental performance in the agricultural sector between countries in the sample. Overall, the countries examined in the present study experienced a decline in TFP due to decreases in technical efficiency. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea were found to show growths in productivity and fully efficient environmental performances throughout the study period, while Thailand was identified as having the lowest environmental efficiency score. Therefore, agriculture production and operation models in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea could serve as good references for the other six countries.

Keywords: environmental efficiency; Malmquist total factor productivity index; slacks-based measure DEA (data envelopment analysis); total factor productivity growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/50/2018-AGRICECON.html (text/html)
http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/50/2018-AGRICECON.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:65:y:2019:i:6:id:50-2018-agricecon

DOI: 10.17221/50/2018-AGRICECON

Access Statistics for this article

Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Ing. Zdeňka Náglová, Ph.D.

More articles in Agricultural Economics from Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().