TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology and farm performance
T2 - Paths of productive efficiencies over time
AU - Kalirajan, K. P.
AU - Shand, R. T.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The focus of this paper is the process of adjustment of farm performance to disequilibrium with new technology over time, which has been a subject of speculation till now. It shows that, left to learn from their own experience, farmers will be slow to realise the full technical potential of a new technology. Drawing on theories of intra-firm diffusion, the hypotheses tested in this paper using data from India are: (1) initial overall farm performances are characterised by modest and widely varying technical and allocative efficiencies, and (2) over time, average efficiencies rise.
AB - The focus of this paper is the process of adjustment of farm performance to disequilibrium with new technology over time, which has been a subject of speculation till now. It shows that, left to learn from their own experience, farmers will be slow to realise the full technical potential of a new technology. Drawing on theories of intra-firm diffusion, the hypotheses tested in this paper using data from India are: (1) initial overall farm performances are characterised by modest and widely varying technical and allocative efficiencies, and (2) over time, average efficiencies rise.
KW - Allocative efficiency
KW - Best practice techniques
KW - Economic efficiency
KW - Intra-firm diffusion
KW - Process of adjustment and time-path
KW - Technical efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035109532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00077-3
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00077-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0169-5150
VL - 24
SP - 297
EP - 306
JO - Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)
JF - Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)
IS - 3
ER -