The study sought to:(1) evaluate agriculturalists' characteristics as adopters of IoT smart
agriculture technologies,(2) evaluate traits fostering innovation adoption,(3) evaluate the …

In this paper we examine the levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 93
developed and develo** countries that account for a major portion of the world population …

China has made substantial investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) to
promote technological change (TC). Although the role of TC in enhancing agricultural …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

Government spending in develo** countries typically account for between 15 and 30
percent of GDP. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a …

A panel dataset of 29 provinces in China is used to analyze the productivity growth in
China's agricultural sector over the period 1990–2003. We compute the output-oriented …

This article measures and compares total factor productivity growth in African agriculture
under contemporaneous and sequential technology frontiers over the period 1970–2004 …

This article presents multi‐output, multi‐input total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates in
agriculture for 88 countries over the 1970–2001 period, estimated with both stochastic …

This article investigates the progress and prospects of agricultural productivity catch-up in
China since the rural reform. A model averaging method is employed to jointly consider four …

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the
Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric …