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Provedor de dados: | 123
País: | Brazil
Título: | Economic efficiency of agricultural production in Brazil
Autores: | Vicente,José R.
Data: | 2004-06-01
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Agricultural production; Nonparametric frontier; Economic efficiency; Technical efficiency; Allocative efficiency.
Resumo: | This study measures levels of technical, allocative and economic efficiency in agricultural crop production for Brazil in 1995. A nonparametric frontier model (DEA) under constant returns to scale was used. On average, the results suggest that the sector suffers from moderate technical inefficiency and from strong allocative inefficiency. If full technical efficiency were achieved, the crop production would increase by more than 30% over that obtained in 1995. Land and labor were overutilized, while fertilizers and pesticides were underutilized. Climate, soil conditions and irrigation use affected technical efficiency levels, and education in rural areas helped explain the extent of allocative efficiency. The state of São Paulo State was the only production unit in Brazil operating in full efficiency in 1995.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20032004000200002
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural
Relação: | 10.1590/S0103-20032004000200002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural  v.42 n.2 2004
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess