Agricultural Production Functions

Agricultural Production

Agricultural production is not keeping up with the world demand for food because the human population is increasing faster than agriculture’s food production capability (Pimentel et al., 1999). Uneven distribution of food, the inability of the poor to purchase food, and political unrest also threaten world food security for human society. Currently, more than 3 billion humans worldwide are maln...

rethinking agricultural production collectivities

Soil Amendments for Agricultural Production

The word organic, applied to fertilizers, indicates that the nutrients are derived from the remains or by‐products of a once‐living organism. Farmers are continually searching for alternatives to synthetic inorganic fertilizers to alleviate the escalating production costs associated with the increasing costs of energy and fertilizers and the problems of soil and surface water deterioration asso...

Frontier Production Functions and Technical Efficiency: a Survey of Empirical Applications in Agricultural Economics

Production frontiers, technical efficiency, survey of applications. The modelling and estimation of frontier production functions has been an important area of econometric research during the last two decades. F~rsund, Lovell and Schmidt (1980) and Schmidt (1986) present reviews of the concepts and models involved and cite some of the empirical applications which had appeared to their respectiv...

Diversification of Agricultural Production in China:

The Agricultural Basic Act, enacted in Japan in 1961, set a policy agenda of altering the course of the Japanese farm sector over the following several decades (National Chamber of Agriculture, 1961). One of the most important concepts articulated in the Act is the transformation of the agricultural product mix : Article 2 stipulates that the government should implement appropriate measures to ...