Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research

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英文名称：

Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research

作者：

Keith Fuglie; Paul Heisey

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=42827

关键词：

Agriculture;  productivity;  productivity growth;  technology;  total factor productivity;  TFP;  research investments;  food;  input;  output;  crop yield;  agricultural research;  agricultural output;  public spending;  private sector research; 

年份：

2007

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

9 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong and consistent evidence that investment in agricultural research has yielded high returns per dollar spent. These returns include benefits not only to the farm sector but also to the food industry and consumers in the form of more abundant commodities at lower prices.