한국 농업의 지역별 생산성 격차와 메타 프론티어 생산함수 추정

Regional Differences in Agricultural Productivity and Agricultural Meta Frontier Production Function in Korea

This study estimates the regional stochastic frontier production functions and the national meta frontier production function of Korean agriculture using micro-level production data of the period from 2003 to 2012. It is shown that regional variation of technical efficiency is larger than farm-level variation of technical efficiency within a region. The meta frontier itself does not show a significant improvement in productivity, but the regional and individual technical efficiencies were improved substantially. Moreover, it is found that regional efficiency was improved mostly in the regions where the proportion of high valued-added urban-oriented farming is higher.