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Technical efficiency and technological heterogeneity in agriculture in the semi-arid and non-semi-arid regions of northeastern Brazil

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posted on 2019-10-02, 03:01 authored by Felipe Pinto da Silva, Jair Andrade Araujo, Edward Martins Costa, José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho

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.

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