Resource productivity and income distribution of corn and sugarcane farmers in Bukidnon [Philippines].
1986
Laureto G.A.
Results of the comparative analysis of means revealed that, except for animal labor, the average utilization of inputs was significantly higher in sugarcane than in corn farms. The findings of the study also disclosed that sugarcane farms had a significantly higher average net returns compared to corn farms on a per farm basis. However, corn farms appears to be more profitable than sugarcane production in terms of returns per pesos investment. The income distribution analysis showed that hired laborers, current input earners, other earners, and the operator and family had higher absolute earner shares in sugarcane than in corn production. The same analysis disclosed that, except land for which absolute share remained the same and animal labor for which absolute share decreased, the shift from corn to sugarcane farming increased the absolute shares of the production factors. Estimation of the resource productivity by means of the Cobb-Douglas production function revealed that the coefficients of man labor and animal labor were positive and significant in corn and in sugarcane farms which implies that these inputs were intensively used in both farms and that these inputs significantly affected the outputs.
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