Organizational and Input Level Effects on Productivity Differential between Private and Collective .Farms in Ethiopia

Abstract

This study is an attempt to decompose the productivity differential observed between tbe private farm and collective farm mganization in Arsi into two .. broad effects - organizational input level effect. It shows that private farms have higher productivity as a result of input saving and extra output gains. The imp-rical analysis inducted shows that the private farms could increase production and sa'oe input. However the paper argues that the estimated gains of the private farms in no way discount the importance of tangible and intangible gains of collective management