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Agricultural Productivity Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Vernon W. Ruttan  and
Yujiro Hayami
Vernon W. Ruttan
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and in the Department of Economics and Economic Development Center, University of Minnesota
Yujiro Hayami
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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Growth in aggregate agricultural output, and productivity is generally recognized as a necessary condition for economic development. The persistent differences productivity among countries and regions (Figure 1) have severely dampened the optimism among national policy makers and planners and among officials in the international aid agencies as to the possibility of substantially narrowing the gaps in productivity (total, land, and worker) in the feasible future.

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Invited Paper
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 1 , October 1972 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, Truro, Nova Scotia, June 21, 1972. The material presented in this paper draws heavily on two publications, Yujiro Hayami and V. W. Ruttan, “Agricultural Productivity Differences Among Countries”, The American Economic Review, Vol. 60, No. 5, December 1970, pp. 895-911; and Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Agricultural Development: An International Perspective (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971), pp. 67-107. The data and data sources on which the tables presented in this paper are based are described and documented in Yujiro Hayami (with Barbara B. Miller, William W. Wade and Sachiko Yamashita), An International Comparison of Agricultural Productivities (St. Paul, University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 277, 1971).

The authors are indebted to Barbara B. Miller, Clayton Ogg, and Sachiko Yamashita for computational and editorial assistance in the preparation of this paper.