In this paper, we present a method to estimatethe productivity development of the Czech agricultural sector. While traditional productivity measures are based on macroeconomic data, we use individual accounting data of firms and determine the productivity development using the Fisher total factor productivity index. The results suggest that the development of agricultural sector is not highly s...

This paper investigates the total factor productivity (TFP) performance of NWFP agriculture crop subsector from 1970 to 2004. It identifies the sources of growth of TFP growth and assesses TFP growth changes in agriculture crop sub-sector. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate the changes in the production frontier. The Malmquist productivity index has decomposed total fa...

Caribbean development theory has long advocated a break from economic reliance on single crop exports through the promotion of domestic agriculture. Yet today the domestic agricultural sector in much ofthe Caribbean is underdeveloped, as the rising food import bill attests. This paper examines the historical views on domestic agriculture by development theorists with afocus on how recurring eco...

mazandaran province is one of the most important agricultural areas in iran. researches findings show that the role of bank credits is really important due to the lack of available funds in agricultural sector. in this study, the relationship between allocation of agricultural bank credits of iran as professional bank section and agricultural employment was studied in the mazandaran province ba...

objective: the agricultural sector is one of the most important and the most basic of productive and economic sectors in each country, and support  of this sector is a very important issue in many countries around the world, that one of the principles supporting the agriculture sector is offering to appropriate and inclusive services to agricultural manufacturers and actors. in this regard, the...

Agricultural sector is still the leading sector in Nigeria’s ailing economy as it provides direct employment to about 75% of the population. This paper examines gender involvement in agricultural production as a means towards increased food sufficiency and consequently curbing food crisis. It critically identified the specific gender involvement in agriculture and gender inequality is noticed i...

1 Sector-wide approaches 2 Agricultural and rural SWAps 3 Why an IFAD policy on agricultural and rural SWAps? 4 EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS LEARNED 7 The link between PRSPs and SWAps 8 The special challenges of the agricultural sector 8 Ownership of agricultural/rural SWAps 9 Agricultural/rural SWAps and decentralization 10 Monitoring the impact of agricultural/rural SWAps 11 The financing of agric...

the production of public goods like amenity value of the landscape, food security, preservation of rural communities and rural lifestyle, by agricultural sector is a subject that has been widely accepted by experts. however, in many policies and political analyses carried out, solely the production of private goods by the agricultural sector is paid attention and the important function of publi...