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What Determines Productivity Growth of Agricultural Cooperatives?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Chatura B. Ariyaratne ,
Allen M. Featherstone  and
Michael R. Langemeier
Chatura B. Ariyaratne
Affiliation:
CSIRO Policy and Economic Research Unit Land in Kensington Gardens, Australia
Allen M. Featherstone
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Michael R. Langemeier
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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Abstract

This paper examines productivity of a sample of grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives from 1990 to 1998. The cooperative industry's productivity or growth was mainly due to improvement in technology rather than improvement in pure efficiency or scale. The cooperative industry's productivity was primarily associated with the grain, fertilizer, and agrochemical product lines. Policies that raise fertilizer prices would encourage a cooperative to be technically more productive. In general, policies that raise prices of grain, fertilizer, and agrochemicals would encourage a cooperative to be more productive overall.

Keywords

agribusinesscooperativesinput biasoutput biasproductivityD24Q13
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , April 2006 , pp. 47 - 59
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2006

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