Agricultural development and productivity : lessons from the Chilean experience /

By:

Crosson, Pierre R

Contributor(s):

Resources for the Future

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baltimore, Published for Resources for the Future, by Johns Hopkins Press c1970 Description: xvi, 198 pISBN:

080181216X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.1'0983 CRO

LOC classification:

HD1877 .C74

Summary: This book investigates the performance of Chilean agriculture in the 1950's by trying to: (1) determine in what respects Chilean agriculture fell short of its potential during this period; (2) offer some tentative explanations for the shortfall; and (3) serve as a model for the use of agricultural production analysis in planning agencies of developing economies. The analysis, which is organized around a production function-that is, a technical relation between outputs and efficiently used inputs-may be subdivided into four major parts: (1) an aggregate description of the institutional framework in which Chilean agriculture operated and of the agricultural product and input changes that occurred in the 1950's; (2) a comparison of the estimated marginal returns from using an additional unit of various inputs with the cost of such inputs, all based on an estimated cross-section production function for a sample of approximately 200 irrigated farms in one of the main agricultural provinces for the 1958-1959 crop year; (3) an examination of the sources of differences between high and low productivity farms in the same sample; and (4) a discussion of potentials and limitations of using these procedures as part of the tool kit of agricultural planners in developing countries.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	338.1'0983 CRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100118864

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This book investigates the performance of Chilean agriculture in the 1950's by trying to: (1) determine in what respects Chilean agriculture fell short of its potential during this period; (2) offer some tentative explanations for the shortfall; and (3) serve as a model for the use of agricultural production analysis in planning agencies of developing economies.
The analysis, which is organized around a production function-that is, a technical relation between outputs and efficiently used inputs-may be subdivided into four major parts: (1) an aggregate description of the institutional framework in which Chilean agriculture operated and of the agricultural product and input changes that occurred in the 1950's; (2) a comparison of the estimated marginal returns from using an additional unit of various inputs with the cost of such inputs, all based on an estimated cross-section production function for a sample of approximately 200 irrigated farms in one of the main agricultural provinces for the 1958-1959 crop year; (3) an examination of the sources of differences between high and low productivity farms in the same sample; and (4) a discussion of potentials and limitations of using these procedures as part of the tool kit of agricultural planners in developing countries.

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