Study on Agricultural Productivity and Efficiency in ASEAN

• Main Authors: NGUYEN, THI BINH, 阮氏平
• Other Authors: Yang, Min-Hsien
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d3t826

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 國際經營與貿易學系 === 107 === Many research on agricultural productivity and efficiency used DEA method to calculate the TFP Malmquist index and found that enhancing human education and research and development contribute to the growth of technical efficiency and productivity in agriculture. This study also applied a DEA approach to analyze total factor productivity, technical and efficiency changes in eight ASEAN countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam agricultural production from 2002 to 2016. Compared to other research before with the same topic, this research studied in more recent period with ASEAN countries where agriculture still is a crucial factor in their economy. The TFP Malmquist index was decomposed into two components: technical change index and technical efficiency change index. The result showed that total factor productivity has risen in most countries for both categories during the 2002-2016 period. The top fourth countries with the most stable and high growth in both indexes were Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. In these countries, technical efficiency change had a higher increase than technical change. Cambodia, Brunei and Myanmar had an unstable change in technology and technical efficiency. All of them had a higher score for technical change compared to technical efficiency in most years. We also found some of reasons which can use to explain the changes in agricultural productivity and efficiency in ASEAN. First, ASEAN governments have spent more money on investing in their agricultural sector, and top countries with highly productive in agriculture received the larger amount of money from their government compared to the other countries. Furthermore, we proceeded to examine the agricultural situation in Vietnam. Vietnam was in the top fourth countries in ASEAN with high and steady score of technical change technical efficiency change as a result of increment in Research and Development, human capital and government’s support.