Productivity Growth in China's Agriculture During 1985–2010

Technical Change Directions of China’s Grain Production: Application of the Bias-Corrected Malmquist Indices

“…Since productivity growth has been widely believed to be crucial for Chinese agriculture (Yao et al 2001;Hu, McAleer 2005;Monchuk et al 2010;Li, Zhang 2013), agricultural productivity and efficiency in China have generally attracted considerable attention. A number of previous studies analyzed total factor productivity (TFP) growth 1 in China's agricultural sector on the basis of national aggregate data by using either parametric or nonparametric methods.…”

“…Besides the national-level data, provincial statistics of China have also been extensively used to investigate regional disparity of productivity growth and patterns of technical efficiency in Chinese agriculture. These researches include the early works, see, e.g., Mao and Koo (1997), Lambert and Parker (1998) and Wu et al (2001), which measured China's regional agricultural productivity change and its components in terms of technical change and efficiency change mainly based on the nonparametric DEA approach and Malmquist Index, and the recent studies, see, e.g., Wang and Rungsuriyawiboon (2010), Ito (2010), Zhang and Brümmer (2011), Ma and Feng (2013), Zhou and Zhang (2013), which identified the sources of China's agricultural productivity change mostly by using the parametric methodology (viz., SFA) assuming Cobb-Douglas, separated Cobb-Douglas or translog production function, and meta-frontier approach. Nonetheless, despite the differences in research methodologies and periods covered in the aforementioned literature, the conclusions drawn in these papers are almost consistent, indicating that: (1) China has experienced an impressive improvement in agricultural TFP, which was mainly driven by technical progress (namely the outward movement of the production frontier), while efficiency change (namely the proximity to the production frontier) has acted against the improvement in TFP in most of the periods; (2) there have been significant regional disparities in productivity performance due to the differences in both technological innovations and efficiency enhancements.…”

Study on the Construction of Smart Agricultural Demonstration Park

“…Compared with developed countries in the world, the area of farmland per capita is far lower than the average level in the world, and the production value per capita and land yield per unit are also on a lower level [1]. Besides, due to environmental pollution and the lack of strict control in the production process, the quality of agricultural products is hard to reach the requirement of high standard, so it has a weak international competence.…”

The Role of Institutional Policies in Promoting Agribusiness Development in Rural China

“…The effect of the various institutional reforms in promoting China's agriculture sector has been subjected to rigorous research [8,12,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. In theory, the growth of agriculture sector is attributed to many factors, such as fertilizer application, the use of agricultural machinery, increase in agricultural and non-agricultural labor, and more importantly the introduction of household responsibility system, which was formally called production teams [30,31].…”