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Explicando as diferenças na produtividade agrícola no Brasil

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  • Ajax R. B. Moreira
  • Steve M. Helfand
  • Adriano M. R. Figueiredo

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This paper uses the agricultural census micro data of 1995-1996 to calculate, for each of the five Brazilian macro regions, the difference in total factor productivity (TFP), with two cleavages: family farmers and input-intensive farmers. This difference in TFP is explained regarding to variables of size, supply of public goods and access to institutions, and local variables measured directly or through a municipality fixed effect. The results point out to: a) the inverse relationship between land productivity and size, a stylized fact in the literature, is verified in all regions, but the inverse relationship regarding TFP and size is verified only to North, Northeast and Southeast and for the non-intensive in other regions; b) the family farmer has higher land productivity in seven of ten cases but lower TFP in eight of ten cases. Most of this difference is due to non-observable variables; and c) the intensive-type farmer is more productive in regions and non-observable variables explain part of the difference in productivity against their counterparts.

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  • Ajax R. B. Moreira & Steve M. Helfand & Adriano M. R. Figueiredo, 2007. "Explicando as diferenças na produtividade agrícola no Brasil," Discussion Papers 1254, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
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    1. Helfand, Steven M. & Magalhaes, Marcelo M. & Rada, Nicholas E., 2015. "Brazil's Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth by Farm Size," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 204875, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Morais, G. & Braga, J.M., 2018. "Irrigation and farm efficiency in Brazil," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 275987, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Juliana de Sales Silva, 2021. "Technical Efficiency and Public Policies in Agriculture: An Analysis for the Eastern Amazon Region," Ensayos de Economía 19349, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín.
    4. Helfand, Steven M. & Taylor, Matthew P.H., 2021. "The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity: Refocusing the debate," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    5. Helfand, Steven M. & Magalhaes, Marcelo M. & Rada, Nicholas E., 2015. "Brazil's Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth by Farm Size," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 204875, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association;Western Agricultural Economics Association.

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