Reduced spending on agricultural research is likely one reason the rate of growth in the productivity of California’s farms has dropped since 1990, according to a new study led by an economist at the University of California, Davis… In California, overall agricultural productivity (how much an average farm can produce with a given amount of land, labor, fertilizer, fuel and so on) grew by an average of 1.82 percent per year from 1949 to 2002, according to the study. From 1990 to 2002, though, productivity grew at an average annual rate of 1.08 percent.

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by Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: June 19th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.