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Productivity, growth of technical efficiency in agriculture and technology of cearences municipalities

Abstract:

The article analyzes the overall productivity, technical efficiency and technological change in total value of agricultural production of the municipalities of Ceará the period 1970-2006, we use the total productivity index and Malmquist model of stochastic frontier. It appears that the increase in investment can contribute to reducing technical inefficiencies in agriculture.

Key words:
productivity; efficiency; frontier stochastic

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