In this paper, we take the establishment of Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone in 2009 as a quasi-natural experiment, to evaluate its influence on the agricultural labor productivity in Jiangxi Province, China. The estimation results of the DID method show that the establishment of the zone reduced agricultural labor productivity by 3.1%, lowering farmers’ net income by 2.5% and reducing the agricul...

The Agricultural sector has the greatest potential for improving rural livelihood and eradicating the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). By the end of the GTP period, the government seeks to double yields of smallholder farmers largely by scaling-up best practices, producing high value crops, expanding irrigation development and promoting natural resource conservation. A substantial increase...

This paper is aimed at making the diffusion of the technological innovation and their role in affecting the agricultural sector in the three-sided (social, economic and environmental), a hand, it can participate to resolve problems of the agricultural sector: the effects of the climatic changes, the farming exodus and the migration and the problems of poverty. The theoretically and empirically ...

For most of the rural poor in developing countries, improving day-to-day quality of life requires improvements in agricultural productivity. With the gradual reduction of government support for public agricultural research, extension, and marketing in many of these settings, the dissemination of new agricultural technologies is increasingly shaped by the private sector(Feder, Willett and Zijp 2...

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing import growth on agricultural productivity for a small open economy using a 2× 2 sector endogenous growth model. We show that the increase of import variety share in manufacturing, when there is no trade induced labor reallocation, drives the emergence of a sectoral productivity growth gap: productivity growth in agriculture is lower than in manuf...

Concerns about sustainability in agricultural systems centre on the need to develop technologies and practices that do not have adverse effects on environmental goods and services, are accessible to and effective for farmers, and lead to improvements in food productivity. Despite great progress in agricultural productivity in the past half-century, with crop and livestock productivity strongly ...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to measure and analyse productivity level agricultural activity in 25 European Union countries factors influencing this level. Approach/Methodology/Design: data covers years 2009-2019 obtained from EUROSTAT database. Aggregated Hicks-Moorsteen TFP total indices were used for measurement analysis. On basis average level, grouped into groups based on analysis the...