Returns to Scale and Input Elasticities for Sugarcane: The Case of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Reinaldo Alcantara and Anthony A. Prato

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1973, vol. 55, issue 4_Part_1, 577-583

Abstract: Returns to scale and input elasticities are estimated from cost functions based on standard and generalized Cobb-Douglas production functions. Returns to scale increased up to 161 thousand tons and decreased thereafter. Elasticities were. 340 for labor, .285 for land, .351 for fertilizer, .113 for pesticides, and —.089 for machinery and equipment.

Date: 1973
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