Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices
This paper aims at measuring productivity and efficiency of China’s three most important grain crops–rice, wheat and maize–as well as identifying the main directions of technical change prevailing in their production. The bias-corrected Malmquist production indices are employed to measure the techni...
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| author | Tianxiang Li Tomas Baležentis Lijuan Cao Jing Zhu Dalia Štreimikienė Rasa Melnikienė |
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| description | This paper aims at measuring productivity and efficiency of China’s three most important grain crops–rice, wheat and maize–as well as identifying the main directions of technical change prevailing in their production. The bias-corrected Malmquist production indices are employed to measure the technical changes (TCs) in terms of input-saving or input-using in China’s grain production, by using provincial aggregate data obtained from the National Farm Production Costs and Returns Survey. The research covers the period of 2003–2013. Application of the bias-corrected Malmquist index showed a labor-saving technical change against all the remaining inputs for the three crops under analysis. The highest frequencies of fertilizer- and machinery-using, labor-saving technical changes were observed for wheat farming. Therefore, a reduction in labor intensity should be the most promising for wheat if compared with rice and maize. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f3d29e0b78034fe7906df3d5f44092652022-12-21T23:49:48ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityTechnological and Economic Development of Economy2029-49132029-49212018-10-0124510.3846/20294913.2017.1352050Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indicesTianxiang Li0Tomas Baležentis1Lijuan Cao2Jing Zhu3Dalia Štreimikienė4Rasa Melnikienė5College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. ChinaLithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, Vilnius, LithuaniaCollege of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China; China Center for Food Security, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. ChinaCollege of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China; China Center for Food Security, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. ChinaLithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, Vilnius, LithuaniaLithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, Vilnius, LithuaniaThis paper aims at measuring productivity and efficiency of China’s three most important grain crops–rice, wheat and maize–as well as identifying the main directions of technical change prevailing in their production. The bias-corrected Malmquist production indices are employed to measure the technical changes (TCs) in terms of input-saving or input-using in China’s grain production, by using provincial aggregate data obtained from the National Farm Production Costs and Returns Survey. The research covers the period of 2003–2013. Application of the bias-corrected Malmquist index showed a labor-saving technical change against all the remaining inputs for the three crops under analysis. The highest frequencies of fertilizer- and machinery-using, labor-saving technical changes were observed for wheat farming. Therefore, a reduction in labor intensity should be the most promising for wheat if compared with rice and maize.http://www.transport.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/5580grain productiontechnical changetechnical biasbias-corrected Malmquist indexChina |
| spellingShingle | Tianxiang Li Tomas Baležentis Lijuan Cao Jing Zhu Dalia Štreimikienė Rasa Melnikienė Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices Technological and Economic Development of Economy grain production technical change technical bias bias-corrected Malmquist index China |
| title | Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices |
| title_full | Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices |
| title_fullStr | Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices |
| title_short | Technical change directions of China’s grain production: application of the bias-corrected Malmquist indices |
| title_sort | technical change directions of china s grain production application of the bias corrected malmquist indices |
| topic | grain production technical change technical bias bias-corrected Malmquist index China |
| url | http://www.transport.vgtu.lt/index.php/TEDE/article/view/5580 |
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