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What Drives Smallholders' Productivity in Pakistan's Horticultural Sector?

Ahmad, Shabbir; Shankar, Sriram; Steen, John; Verreynne, Martie-Louise; Abid Aman, Burki

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Smallholders are indispensable to ensuring food security in the developing economies where they farm. Policy interventions often target smallholders to provide for example, input subsidies, extension services and access to credit, because increased total factor productivity (Hsieh & Klenow, 2009) can ensure that they are better placed to support food security. However, the impact of such interventions and the drivers of TFP growth are largely unknown due to lack of comprehensive data and...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorAhmad, Shabbir
dc.contributor.authorShankar, Sriram
dc.contributor.authorSteen, John
dc.contributor.authorVerreynne, Martie-Louise
dc.contributor.authorAbid Aman, Burki
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-29T02:20:16Z
dc.date.available2019-11-29T02:20:16Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/187042
dc.description.abstractSmallholders are indispensable to ensuring food security in the developing economies where they farm. Policy interventions often target smallholders to provide for example, input subsidies, extension services and access to credit, because increased total factor productivity (Hsieh & Klenow, 2009) can ensure that they are better placed to support food security. However, the impact of such interventions and the drivers of TFP growth are largely unknown due to lack of comprehensive data and appropriate methodology. To overcome these impediments, we propose an econometric estimation of the components of TFP growth in a Bayesian set-up and apply this to new farm-level survey data of smallholders from Pakistan’s horticulture sector. The results indicate large technical and mix efficiency differentials across agro-climatic zones and farm sizes. These disparities in technical and mix efficiency are due to suboptimal farm practices, potentially from limited access to and adoption of technology. Government policy makers, support agencies, farmer groups and other stakeholders have latitude in providing adequate education and training programs aimed at improving input-use efficiency and introducing innovative practices leading to TFP growth.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis report was commisioned by UQ School of Economics. This paper was partially funded by a research grant from the Australian Institute of Business and Economics (AIBE), the University of Queensland, Australia and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research for the project ‘Farmer’s capabilities, productivity, and profitability: A case study of smallholders in selected agro zones in Pakistan’(ADP/2015/004)
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dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherUniversity of Queensland
dc.rights© 2018 The Author(s)
dc.source.urihttp://www.uq.edu.au/economics/abstract/597.pdf
dc.titleWhat Drives Smallholders' Productivity in Pakistan's Horticultural Sector?
dc.typeReport (Commissioned)
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
dc.date.issued2018
local.identifier.absfor140302 - Econometric and Statistical Methods
local.identifier.absfor140201 - Agricultural Economics
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4775654xPUB8
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.uq.edu.au/economics/abstract/597.pdf
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationAhmad, Shabbir, UQ Business School
local.contributor.affiliationShankar, Sriram, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationSteen, John, UQ Business School
local.contributor.affiliationVerreynne, Martie-Louise, UQ Business School
local.contributor.affiliationAbid Aman, Burki, Lahore University of Management Sciences
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage38
dc.date.updated2019-06-09T08:16:50Z
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationonline
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher website
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