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What Drives Smallholders' Productivity in Pakistan's Horticultural Sector?

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  • Shabbir Ahmad

    (UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

  • Sriram Shankar

    (ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods & Research School of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australiaa)

  • John Steen

    (UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

  • Martie-Louise Verreynne

    (UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

  • Abid Aman Burki

    (Department of Economics Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan)

Abstract

Smallholders are indispensable to ensuring food security in the developing economies where they farm. Policy interventions often target smallholders to provide for example, input subsidies, extension services and access to credit, because increased total factor productivity (Hsieh & Klenow, 2009) can ensure that they are better placed to support food security. However, the impact of such interventions and the drivers of TFP growth are largely unknown due to lack of comprehensive data and appropriate methodology. To overcome these impediments, we propose an econometric estimation of the components of TFP growth in a Bayesian set-up and apply this to new farm-level survey data of smallholders from Pakistan’s horticulture sector. The results indicate large technical and mix efficiency differentials across agro-climatic zones and farm sizes. These disparities in technical and mix efficiency are due to suboptimal farm practices, potentially from limited access to and adoption of technology. Government policy makers, support agencies, farmer groups and other stakeholders have latitude in providing adequate education and training programs aimed at improving input-use efficiency and introducing innovative practices leading to TFP growth.

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  • Shabbir Ahmad & Sriram Shankar & John Steen & Martie-Louise Verreynne & Abid Aman Burki, 2018. "What Drives Smallholders' Productivity in Pakistan's Horticultural Sector?," Discussion Papers Series 597, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
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    Keywords

    Scope economies; developing economy; aggregator function; mix efficiency; TFP;
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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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