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Productivity and Efficiency Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: The Case of the Dairy-Farming Region in Hokkaido

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  • Yamamoto, Yasutaka
  • Kondo, Katsunobu
  • Sasaki, Jun

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric output-oriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity (TFP). The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 44 agricultural cooperatives located in the dairy-farming region of Hokkaido in Japan over the period 1982-1991. The results suggest that the pattern of TFP changes tends to be driven more by technical progress rather than improvements in technical efficiency. The results also suggest that the goal of a 30% increase in productivity in agricultural cooperatives by the year 2000 introduced at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Cooperatives Association of Japan held in 1994 was unattainable in the case of 44 agricultural cooperatives located in the dairy-farming region of Hokkaido.

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  • Yamamoto, Yasutaka & Kondo, Katsunobu & Sasaki, Jun, 2006. "Productivity and Efficiency Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: The Case of the Dairy-Farming Region in Hokkaido," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 8, pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:jpjjre:242143
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.242143
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    1. Kozo Harimaya & Koichi Kagitani, 2022. "Efficiency, and economies of scale and scope in Japanese agricultural cooperatives," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 11(1), pages 1-19, December.
    2. Kuhle Prudence Mnisi & Abdul Latif Alhassan, 2021. "Financial structure and cooperative efficiency: A pecking‐order evidence from sugarcane farmers in Eswatini," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(2), pages 261-281, June.
    3. Theodoros Skevas & Jasper Grashuis, 2023. "Evaluating dynamic productivity change of US farm supply cooperatives," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(4), pages 1238-1253, October.
    4. Kondo, Katsunobu & Yamamoto, Yasutaka & Sasaki, Jun, 2008. "Measuring Total Factor Productivity Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: A Nonparametric Malmquist Indices Approach," Journal of Rural Cooperation, Hebrew University, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, vol. 36(2), pages 1-13.

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