Productivity, technical efficiency and technological change in French agriculture during 2002-2014: A Färe-Primont index decomposition

K Hervé Dakpo, Yann Desjeux, Philippe Jeanneaux and Laure Latruffe

No 17-07, Working Papers SMART from INRAE UMR SMART

Abstract: The objective of the article is to assess productivity change in French agriculture during 2002-2014, namely total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components technological change and technical efficiency change. For this, we use the economically-ideal Färe-Primont index which verifies the multiplicatively completeness property and is also transitive, allowing for multi-temporal/lateral comparisons. To compare the technology gap change between the six types of farming considered, we extend the Färe-Primont to the meta-frontier framework. Results indicate that during 2002-2014, all farms experienced a TFP progress. Pig and/or poultry farms had the lowest TFP increase, while beef farms had the highest (19.1%). The latter farms had the strongest increase in technical efficiency, while technological progress was the highest for mixed farms. The meta-frontier analysis shows that field crop farms’ technology is the most productive of all types of farming.

Keywords: total factor productivity (TFP); Färe-Primont index; meta-frontier; French farms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 O47 Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-ino and nep-tid
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