10.6084/m9.figshare.9927926.v1 Felipe Pinto da Silva Felipe Pinto da Silva Jair Andrade Araujo Jair Andrade Araujo Edward Martins Costa Edward Martins Costa José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho Technical efficiency and technological heterogeneity in agriculture in the semi-arid and non-semi-arid regions of northeastern Brazil SciELO journals 2019 agriculture technology semi-arid northeast production frontier 2019-10-02 03:01:58 Dataset https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Technical_efficiency_and_technological_heterogeneity_in_agriculture_in_the_semi-arid_and_non-semi-arid_regions_of_northeastern_Brazil/9927926 <p></p><p>Abstract This study aims to analyze the technological differences in agricultural production between the municipalities in the semiarid and non-semiarid Northeast Brazil. It uses the technological meta-frontier model proposed by Battese, Rao e O’Donnell (2004), and O’Donnell, Rao e Battese (2008), for responding to what extent these regional differences influence the efficiency of production. It was observed that the hypothesis that the municipalities belonging to the semiarid and non-semiarid face with different production opportunities. The results indicated, that comparing both regions, the non-semiarid region has the highest average technical efficiency with reference to meta-frontier.</p><p></p>