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SPANISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
CONSEJO SUPERIOR INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS-CSIC
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2017152-10548
Keywords
total factor productivity; data envelopment analysis; Egypt
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- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain [AGL2015-65897-C3-1-R]
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This study aims to measure the total factor productivity of the main governorates of wheat production in Egypt during the time period 1990-2012 and decompose it into technical change, efficiency change and scale change. We used Global Malmquist TFP index as a non-parametric approach. The results indicated that the contribution of technical change component is more important than the efficiency change component. In fact technical change rose, 25.7%, while efficiency change presented a little decline, 3.7%. The decomposition of efficiency change indicated that the main problem of wheat production in Egypt was scale efficiency that worsened by 5.5%.
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