Grain and Sunflower Crops on Russian Farms in 2001: How Efficient is Crop Production?
Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 297-305, September 2004
Posted: 3 May 2011 Last revised: 10 May 2015
Date Written: January 1, 2004
Abstract
An unusually detailed sample of large farms in Rostov, Ivanovo and Nizhny Novgorod regions of Russia in 2001 allows micro-economic examination of the production of grain and sunflower crops on Russian farms. Farms are found to have some excess capital and labour, but not land and other types of capital. New operators are found to be more efficient than other farms thought they do not necessarily produce more output. Neither rural infrastructure, location nor specialization has a clear impact on farm efficiency. How workers are paid is found to be a potential short-term method for improving farm efficiency that would not involve major farm restructuring.
Keywords: russian farms, stochastic frontiers, grain and sunflower
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