INDIAN STATE-LEVEL SORGHUM PRODUCTIVITY MEASURES

Dayakar Behnur and Saleem Shaik

No 22105, 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper has a three fold contribution to the existing literature - 1) Indian state level sorghum input and output data for the period 1970-71 to 2000-01 is collected, 2) non-parametric linear programming productivity measures are estimated, and 3) examine the impact of policy variables like percent of high yielding varieties, percent under irrigation, and herfindahl index of seasonal production (rabi and kharif) on productivity using two way random effects panel model

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22105

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