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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Productivity and farm size in Australian agriculture: reinvestigating the returns to scale
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| Autores: |
Sheng, Yu
Zhao, Shiji
Nossal, Katarina
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| Data: |
2011-02-23
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| Ano: |
2011
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| Palavras-chave: |
Returns to scale
Returns to size
Production function
Technology progress
Structural adjustment
Australian agriculture
Agricultural and Food Policy
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| Resumo: |
Higher productivity among large farms is often assumed to be a result of increasing returns to scale. However, using farm-level data for the Australian broadacre industry, it was found that constant or mildly decreasing returns to scale is more typical. On examining the monotonic change in marginal input returns as farm operating size increases, it was found that large farms achieve higher productivity through changes in production technology rather than through changes in scale. The results highlight the disparity between ‘returns to scale’ and ‘returns to size’ in Australian agriculture. They also suggest that improving productivity in smaller farms would depend more on their ability to access advanced technologies than their ability to simply expand. The implications for ongoing structural adjustment in Australian agriculture are discussed.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/100711
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| Relação: |
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society>2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia
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| Formato: |
22
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