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>