Determinants of agricultural output in Syria

Mohsen, Adel Shakeeb; Chua, Soo Y.; Sab, Che Normee Che

doi:10.15414/raae.2016.19.01.21-29

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“…The behavior of the agriculture production pattern has been investigated in many studies in the context of itself or its industry in the producing countries. However, most of these studies including Elias (1985), Mogues et al (2015), Oyinbo et al (2013) Selvaraj (1993) and Mohsen et al (2016) have tested the effect of the government expenditure on agriculture sector especially on the agriculture output. These studies have proven that the government expenditure has significant positive impact toward the agriculture production.…”

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Assessment of Government Agriculture and Rural Development Expenditure Impact on the Malaysia’s Agriculture Production

Zhi¹,

Wong²

2020

MJAE

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This study is focused on determination of the important factors that have affected the agriculture production in Malaysia. The data on interest rate (IR) and government agriculture expenditure (GE) were collected from Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) monthly bulletin statistic. Besides that, the number of labor use in agriculture sector (LA) was collected from the World Development Indicator (WDI). All data collected were based on the time series (annually) from 1983 to 2016. In this study, the Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Philips Perron (PP) tests are used to determine the stationary of the time series data and the overall findings showed that the time series data are stationary at order one or I(1). In this study, the result of Engle Granger (EG) co-integration test was used and stated that all the factors were co-integrated with the agriculture productivity. However, the GE2 and interest rate (IR) are the only factors that showed a negative relationship. In the long run, all the factors are significantly affecting agricultural productivity, while the interest rate is insignificant to determine the agriculture production. Furthermore, the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) model showed that all the factors are significantly influencing the agricultural production in Malaysia except the interest rate. In the nutshell, this study suggests that the policy maker should take the precautions in the budget spending in agriculture sector, which should not exceed the threshold spending of RM3,057 million.

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Assessment of Government Agriculture and Rural Development Expenditure Impact on the Malaysia’s Agriculture Production

Zhi¹,

Wong²

2020

MJAE

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“…Syria is located in Western Asia and characterized by a middle-income developing country with a diversified economy. The agricultural sector is one of the largest contributors to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it plays a major role in Syria’s economic development for achieving national food security, promoting Syrian trade and providing jobs for the rural people [ 3 ]. Agriculture accounts for 20% of GDP in 2011, with an annual growth rate of about 4% from 2010 to 2011 [ 4 ].…”

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Evaluation of technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria: does crisis matter?

AlFraj

Hamo

2022

Agric & Food Secur

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Background Syria is a developing country whose economy is still dominated by the agricultural sector. The agricultural sector is considered as the main source of food in Syria and a major source of employment and income generation. Food and agricultural policies in Syria focus heavily on achieving food security and improving its four pillars (availability, accessibility, stability and utilization). As a result, until 2011, a good progress has been attained in food availability. The food security situation deteriorated in Syria after 2011 crisis, with the number of people facing acute food insecurity rising from 7.9 million in 2020 to a staggering 12.4 million in 2021. This is the result of many shocks that the agricultural sector has been exposed to, such as the relative decrease in cultivated areas, high costs of production, reduced input availability including labour, prevailing violence, related damage to farm equipment, and abandoned land. In view of the changes that the agricultural sector has been exposed to in Syria as a result of the crisis, the study concerns measuring the technical efficiency of production of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops in Syria and comparing it in the pre and post-crisis period, which has started in 2011. A non-parametric (DEA) method is applied for measuring technical efficiency during the time period 2003–2010 (pre-crisis) and the period 2011–2018 (post-crisis) with censored regression (the tobit model) to investigate the determinants of technical efficiency. A t test is used to test the null hypothesis (H0) that there was no difference in technical efficiency of the production of studied crops before and after the crisis in Syria and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that there was a significant difference in technical efficiency. Results The findings show low level of technical efficiency in the post-crisis period. The results verified differences in the technical efficiency of pre- and post-crisis period. The use of censored regression with dummy for crisis has shown negative and significant effect on technical efficiency of each of the durum wheat and lentil crops, while it had no significant effect on the other studied crops. Conclusions This study can provide important information to the government to pursue a new policy for recovery and improving the agricultural production and productivity. There is an urgent need to adopt new policies that focus on providing production requirements in the form of low-interest loans, sustainable use of resources, providing support for the marketing process, and focusing on the export markets of some study crops (chickpeas and lentils). Government should improve agricultural extension services for farmers and encouraging them to adopt new technologies.

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Determinants of agricultural output in Syria

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Assessment of Government Agriculture and Rural Development Expenditure Impact on the Malaysia’s Agriculture Production

Assessment of Government Agriculture and Rural Development Expenditure Impact on the Malaysia’s Agriculture Production

Evaluation of technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria: does crisis matter?

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