The Creation and Spread of Technology and Total Factor Productivity in China's Agriculture
Songqing Jin
graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California-Davis
The authors would like to thank the research staff of CCAP for the literally thousands of hours of time that they have put in collecting and cleaning the data and assistance in computing. They also thank Julian Alston, John Antle, Cristina David, Xinshen Diao, Robert Evenson, Shenggen Fan, D. Gale Johnson, Erika Meng, Michael Morris, Prabhu Pingali, Carl Pray, and Melinda Smale for providing insights on the data and methodology.
Search for more papers by this authorJikun Huang
director
Financial support from CGIAR, the Rockeller Foundation's Agricultural Science Foundation, and China National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
Search for more papers by this authorRuifa Hu
research fellow at the the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP)
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Rozelle is a member of the Giannini Foundation.
Search for more papers by this authorSongqing Jin
graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California-Davis
The authors would like to thank the research staff of CCAP for the literally thousands of hours of time that they have put in collecting and cleaning the data and assistance in computing. They also thank Julian Alston, John Antle, Cristina David, Xinshen Diao, Robert Evenson, Shenggen Fan, D. Gale Johnson, Erika Meng, Michael Morris, Prabhu Pingali, Carl Pray, and Melinda Smale for providing insights on the data and methodology.
Search for more papers by this authorJikun Huang
director
Financial support from CGIAR, the Rockeller Foundation's Agricultural Science Foundation, and China National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
Search for more papers by this authorRuifa Hu
research fellow at the the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP)
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Rozelle is a member of the Giannini Foundation.
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
The overall goal of this study is to create a framework for assessing the trends of China's national and international investment in agricultural research and to measure its impact on total factor productivity. The main methodological contribution is to provide more convincing measures of crop-specific technologies from China's national research program and of those imported from the international agricultural research system. Our results find that from 1980 to 1995, China's total factor productivity for rice, wheat, and maize grew rapidly and new technology accounts for most of the productivity growth.
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