@article {2607,
	title = {Sources and Measurement of AgriculturalProductivity and Efficiency in Canadian Provinces:Crops and Livestock},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics},
	volume = {64},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {49-70},
	abstract = {This paper measures and assesses the variation in total factor productivity (TFP) growth among\&nbsp;Canadian provinces in crops and livestock production over the period 1940{\textendash}2009. It also determines ifagricultural productivity growth in Canada has recently slowed down as indicated by earlier studies.\&nbsp;The paper uses the stochastic frontier approach that incorporates inefficiency to decompose TFP\&nbsp;growth into technical change (TC), scale effect (SE), and technical efficiency change. The results\&nbsp;indicate that productivity changes were mainly driven by TCs for crops, while the productivity changes\&nbsp;in livestock was mainly driven by SEs and technical progress. Though change in technical efficiency is\&nbsp;mainly positive (except for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), its contribution to productivity growth\&nbsp;was very little for the provinces.We also found that over the entire period, the productivity growth rates\&nbsp;for the crop subsector are on average higher for the Prairie provinces than for the Eastern and Atlantic\&nbsp;provinces. On the other hand, the productivity growth rates in the livestock subsector are on averagehigher in the Eastern and Atlantic provinces than in the Prairie region with the exception of Manitoba.\&nbsp;Finally, we found that though there is some evidence of a recent decline in productivity growth for thecrops subsector, there is no such evidence in the livestock subsector.},
	author = {Alexander Bilson Darku and Stavroula Malla and Kien C. Tran}
}
