The main purpose of this report is to conduct an analysis with a view to determine the potential role and contribution of agriculture in region E. This report emphasises the agricultural impact in determining an economic development strategy for region E. It is therefore the aim of this report to provide a brief situation analysis and an interpretation of existing problems affecting development. The importance of the sector, implications of the spacial distribution, the structure, potential growth and the policy environment will be addressed. From the above, constraints, bottlenecks, the likely future demand, etc will be pointed out. The interpretation of the above and its implications for development is necessary to determine objectives for the aimed strategy. The strategy for region E is necessary in determining policies stressing economic growth and fair distribution of resources to enable the mass of the population to share in increased wealth and economic opportunities. / Region E economic development study

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Graduation date: 1974

A study was undertaken to investigate the macro production relationships in Canadian primary agriculture during the 1935-65 period. Specifically, the problem was to measure simultaneously the rate of disembodied technological change and technological change embodied in machinery and implements, and material inputs. To estimate technological change, regression estimates were obtained for a linear homogeneous Cobb-Douglas production function, where real gross agricultural output per person employed was the dependent variable, and a time index, weather index, and the annual flow of real capital services (including material inputs) per person employed were the independent variables. The data, which consisted of time series of thirty-one annual observations, was derived mainly from publications of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The rate of disembodied technological change was estimated directly by specifying a term which allowed for shifts in the production function over time. To measure the rate of embodied technological change, which was assumed to be capital-augmenting in the vintage sense, several alternative values for the improvement in the productive quality of machinery and implements, and material inputs were imposed on the original data series. Based on these alternatives, a matrix of regression results was obtained, and the true value of the rate of embodied technological change was inferred by choosing the "best" regression. In addition, several alternative models were investigated. When disembodied and embodied technological change were specified simultaneously, the "best" estimate of the annual rate of disembodied technological change was 1.76 per cent, while embodied technological change in material inputs was estimated at 3.5 to 4.0 per cent annually. There was no evidence of a positive rate of embodied technological change in machinery and implements in any of the regressions. However, it was concluded that this a priori unexpected result should be considered substantially biased. / Land and Food Systems, Faculty of / Graduate

This thesis provides a comprehensive treatment of agriculture in Canada as examined from the viewpoint of modern production theory. This theory has it's origins in Hicks (1946) who developed the implications of profit-maximizing behavior in the context of a multiple input, multiple output technology. The main body of the thesis is divided into three major papers. In the first paper we provide a comprehensive overview of the concepts and methodology which have been employed in making observations of agricultural production during the period 1926-1970. In the second and third papers of the thesis we apply the previously analysed data base to the problem of measuring the rate of increase in total factor productivity during the post-war period and to estimating the internal structure of agricultural production during the post-war period. The second paper is devoted to measuring the growth in total factor productivity during the post-war period. Two problems are explicitly examined: i) the calculation of rental prices or user costs for durable inputs (see Jorgenson and Griliches (1967) (1972), Diewert (1972) Section VI "Producer Behavior when Depreciation Rates are Variable", and King (1974)) and (ii) the aggregation of the numerous inputs and outputs (see Jorgenson and Griliches (1972) and Diewert (1974a)). In the third paper, the data base is applied to the problem of modeling and estimating empirically a multiple-output production function for the Canadian Agricultural Sector. This study not only provides insight into the internal structure of production within the agricultural sector, but also allows many of the assumptions and implications of the neoclassical theory of production to be tested empirically. In each of the applications the results achieved are directly related to the accounting framework by which the various inputs and outputs are measured and to the way in which the data has been handled. Thus a major concern in the applications sections is with possible ways by which the data and the studies may be improved. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1953 F5 / Master of Science

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