Abstract
Catching-up effect in agricultural productivity : The case of arable farms in Nord-Pas-de-Calais One of the principal objectives of successive reforms of the CAP has been to increase the exposure of European agriculture to market forces. As a result, the search for competitiveness has become a major preoccupation for farmers. The poorest performers must catch up with the most efficient ones through the progressive adoption of best practice. Our research sought to reveal and measure these possible convergence phenomena in a study of 178 arable farms in the same region (Nord-Pas-de-Calais). The study analyses data from 1994 to 2001, a period encompassing the Mac Sharry reform and the first measures of Agenda 2000. From estimates of total factor productivity based on a distance function, our results clearly indicate evidence of catch up between the farms, through increased technical and scale efficiencies.
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