@article{Rada:256716,
      recid = {256716},
      author = {Rada, Nicholas   and Liefert, William   and Liefert, Olga  },
      title = {Productivity Growth and the Revival of Russian  Agriculture},
      address = {2017-04-25},
      number = {1477-2017-586},
      series = {Economic Research Report Number 228},
      pages = {45},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Russia’s transition from a planned to a market economy  during the 1990s resulted in a severe decline in  agricultural gross output and the inputs used in  production. By the late 1990s, the agricultural output  decline had bottomed out and growth resumed. For some  products, such as grain, the production rebound created  surpluses for export, while for other products for which  Russia was a net importer, such as meat, the output growth  reduced imports. Although the output turnaround began in  the late 1990s, input use fell until the mid-2000s as the  sector continued to correct overexpansion during the Soviet  period. Measures of Russian national and district-level  total factor productivity (TFP) growth in agriculture from  1994 to 2013 reveal that recovery varied regionally across  the country, though greater output specialization has been  a general feature among districts. The most robust  productivity growth occurred in the South, which has  emerged as Russia’s most important agricultural district.  The Central district also exhibited strong TFP growth in  the later years of the study period, which supports a  cautiously optimistic view of Russia’s future agricultural  growth.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/256716},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.256716},
}