Total factor productivity (TFP) has emerged as an important source of agriculture growth. However, this area remained neglected by researchers as well as policy makers in Pakistan. The studies which have estimated agriculture TFP growth in Pakistan are very few and they have tended to overstate it by ignoring the variation in capacity utilization, hours worked and improvement in labour producti...

This publication updates and refines a previous study on the same subject (Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy, CTAHR Economic Issues publica­ tion EI-2, February 2000). That publication emphasized that estimates of agriculture’s contributions vary depend­ ing on what is defined as agriculture and on the method­ ology used to develop the estimates. As we define it here, agriculture i...