Author(s)

Yu Chen, Fang Wang

Corresponding Author

Fang Wang

Abstract

By calculating the changes of agricultural total factor productivity in 31 provinces of China from 2007 to 2016 and analyzing its characteristics in time and space, it is found that the average annual growth rate of agricultural TFP in China during the sample period is 6.98%, and the dominant factor is technological progress rather than technological efficiency change. Good; pure technological efficiency and scale efficiency alternate in positive growth and negative growth. In terms of spatial characteristics, considering environmental factors, the changes of TFP, technological progress and technological efficiency in the central and western regions are significantly better than those in the eastern regions, and the three regions have convergence in terms of TFP, technological progress and technological efficiency.

Keywords

Total Factor Productivity of Agriculture, MALMQUIST-DEA Model, Spatio-temporal Characteristic