The Saudi Arabian wheat industry has witnessed a structural change in the last 15 years. Elements of structural change lie mainly in the introduction of large size commercial farms and the adoption of a wide array of new technologies. This structural change has dramatically incr…
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Scope and method of study. The agricultural sector of Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest growing sectors in the country. During the last thirty years the Saudi government has paid more attention to this sector, increasing expenditure and offering interest-free loans to farmers; …
This study examines the technical efficiency of coffee Arabica ' farmers in Ethiopia and also investigates the factors that could affect these levels of efficiency. This study uses a stochastic frontier approach (SFA) to accomplish this task because SFA acknowledges the fact tha…
In the first two essays of this dissertation, I construct a dynamic stochastic production frontier incorporating the sluggish adjustment of inputs, measure the speed of adjustment of output in the short-run, and compare the technical efficiency estimates from such a dynamic mode…
Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Bec…