Land Use and Productivity Growth in Thai Agriculture

摘要: Growth in agricultural production Thailand can no longer rely mainly on an extension of land area. New technology inputs such as fertilisers, mechanisation, water and chemicals have been adopted. This change has raised questions about the technical productivity growth Thai production. A translog variable cost function framework is used to estimate a system associated share equations for agriculture. The estimated using iterative seemingly unrelated regression method applied panel 92 observations, comprising annual data from 1972 1994 four regions Thailand. results indicate that availabilities new could influence