PAPUA NEW GUINEA&apos;S EXPORT-CROP RESEARCH: PAST RETURNS AND EXPECTED ECONOMIC EFFECTS

Antony, George; Parton, Kevin A

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Author(s): George Antony , Kevin A. Parton

Publication date (Print): June 1991

Journal: Prometheus

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Keywords: Export-crop research, PNG, research evaluation, expost and exante evaluation , institutional framework

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The project described in the paper is the first attempt to provide an economic evaluation of export-crop research in PNG. The institutional framework is outlined to provide a context for understanding the methods used. Past performance of two agricultural research projects was assessed and then eleven ex ante research evaluations were performed. After reviewing the overall results, suggestions are made for institutionalising research evaluation procedures at various levels of the public administration system.

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

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Publication date (Print): June 1991

Volume: 9

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Pages: 62-80

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

Griliches Z.. 1958. . Research costs and social returns: hybrid corn and related innovations. . Journal of Political Economy . , Vol. 66:: 419––31. .
R. G. Echeverria, ‘Assessing the impact of agricultural research’, in R.G. Echeverria (ed.), Methods for Diagnosing Research System Constraints and Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research. Vol II: Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1990.
R.B. Contant and A. Bottomley, Priority Setting in Agricultural Research, Working Paper No. 10, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1988; G. Fox, ‘Models of resource allocation in public agricultural research: a survey’, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 38, 3, 1987, pp. 449-62; J.R. Anderson and K.A. Parton, ‘Techniques for guiding the allocation of resources among rural research projects: the state of the art’, Prometheus 1, 1, 1983, pp. 180-201; G.W. Norton and J.S. Davis, ‘Evaluating returns to agricultural research: a review’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63, 4, 1981, pp. 685–99.
ISNAR, Review of the Programme and Organisation for Crops Research in Papua New Guinea, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1982.
World Bank, Country Sector Report: Papua New Guinea Agricultural Services Review, Report No. 3161-PNG, Washington, DC, 1980; ISNAR, op. cit.
The interplanting of cocoa and coconut is a PNG speciality.
In early 1990, one PNG kina (K) was worth around $US1.1.
Syed R. A.. 1978. . Studies on Pollination of Oil Palm in West Africa and Malaysia . , London : : Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control. .
Antony G., Kauzi G. Y. and Prior R. N.B.. 1990. . Returns to research on insect pollination of oil palm in Papua New Guinea. . Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture . , Vol. 29((2)): 119––31. .
G. Antony, G.Y. Kauzi, D.W. Loh and J.R. Anderson, Returns to Cocoa Research 1965 to 1980 in Papua New Guinea, ACIAR/ISNAR Project Paper Series No. 9, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 1988.
Gittinger J. P.. 1982. . Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects . , 2nd edn. , Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press. .
G. Antony, G.Y. Kauzi, and R.N.B. Prior, Returns to Research on Insect Pollination of Oil Palm in Papua New Guinea, ACIAR/ISNAR Project Paper Series No. 10, Australian Centre for International Agricltural Research, Canberra, 1988; Antony, Kauzi and Prior, 1990, op cit.
Antony, Kauzi, Loh and Anderson, op. cit.
Norton and Davis, op. cit.; Anderson and Parton, op. cit; G.W. Norton and P.G. Pardey, Priority-Setting Mechanisms for National Agricultural Research Systems: Present Experience and Future needs, Working Paper No. 7, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1987.
K.A. Parton, J.R. Anderson and J.P. Makeham, Evaluation Methods for Australian Wool Production Research, Agricultural Economics Bulletin No. 29, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, University of New England, Armidale, 1984.
G. Antony and J.R. Anderson, ‘Prediction of the expected economic effects of projects in export-crop research in Papua New Guinea’, paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Brisbane, 12-15 February, 1990.
J. Witworth and G. Kauzi, Commodity Summary No. 1: Coffee, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987; J. Witworth and J. Kiele, Commodity Summary No. 2: Cocoa, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987; J. Witworth and V. Vaii, Commodity Summary No. 3: Copra, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987.
AgBank, Field Base Manual, Agriculture Bank of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1986.
L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea cocoa production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economcs, Canberra, 1987; L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea coffee production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra, 1987; L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea copra production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra, 1987.
E. M. Fleming, ‘Short-term supply response for long-term crops in the South Pacific: a comparative study’, unpublished paper, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, University of New England, Armidale, 1989.
The analytical procedure of the study was implemented as a computer package. A Fortran programme was written for the purpose of this study. The user's guide to the programme (G. Antony, User's Guide to Program CBR: Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of Export-Crop Research in Papua New Guinea. Research Bulletin No. 48, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990) contains detailed instructions for deriving the data set for analysis, running the programme and interpreting the results. Results include present values and internal rates of return for the projects at the national level. The output also contains details of the without-and with-research scenarios; quantities of output and producers’ surpluses are shown for each year, region and producer group. A copy of the programme can be obtained from the authors on IBM PC compatible disk. Please specify disk size and density and send $15 to cover costs to: Department of Agricultural Economics, UNE, Armidale, NSW 2351. The programme comes complete with demonstration files and utilities. Only the listing of the Fortran source code is available on a Macintosh disk, and the authors do not support the programme on the Macintosh.
G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken at the Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute, Research Bulletin No. 45, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990; G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken at the Coffee Research Institute, Research Bulletin No. 46, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990; G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken in Oil Palm in Papua New Guinea, Research Bulletin No. 47, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990.

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[1] Griliches Z.. 1958. . Research costs and social returns: hybrid corn and related innovations. . Journal of Political Economy . , Vol. 66:: 419––31. .

[2] R. G. Echeverria, ‘Assessing the impact of agricultural research’, in R.G. Echeverria (ed.), Methods for Diagnosing Research System Constraints and Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research. Vol II: Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1990.

[3] R.B. Contant and A. Bottomley, Priority Setting in Agricultural Research, Working Paper No. 10, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1988; G. Fox, ‘Models of resource allocation in public agricultural research: a survey’, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 38, 3, 1987, pp. 449-62; J.R. Anderson and K.A. Parton, ‘Techniques for guiding the allocation of resources among rural research projects: the state of the art’, Prometheus 1, 1, 1983, pp. 180-201; G.W. Norton and J.S. Davis, ‘Evaluating returns to agricultural research: a review’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63, 4, 1981, pp. 685–99.

[4] ISNAR, Review of the Programme and Organisation for Crops Research in Papua New Guinea, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1982.

[5] World Bank, Country Sector Report: Papua New Guinea Agricultural Services Review, Report No. 3161-PNG, Washington, DC, 1980; ISNAR, op. cit.

[6] The interplanting of cocoa and coconut is a PNG speciality.

[7] In early 1990, one PNG kina (K) was worth around $US1.1.

[8] Syed R. A.. 1978. . Studies on Pollination of Oil Palm in West Africa and Malaysia . , London : : Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control. .

[9] Antony G., Kauzi G. Y. and Prior R. N.B.. 1990. . Returns to research on insect pollination of oil palm in Papua New Guinea. . Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture . , Vol. 29((2)): 119––31. .

[10] G. Antony, G.Y. Kauzi, D.W. Loh and J.R. Anderson, Returns to Cocoa Research 1965 to 1980 in Papua New Guinea, ACIAR/ISNAR Project Paper Series No. 9, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 1988.

[11] Gittinger J. P.. 1982. . Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects . , 2nd edn. , Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press. .

[12] G. Antony, G.Y. Kauzi, and R.N.B. Prior, Returns to Research on Insect Pollination of Oil Palm in Papua New Guinea, ACIAR/ISNAR Project Paper Series No. 10, Australian Centre for International Agricltural Research, Canberra, 1988; Antony, Kauzi and Prior, 1990, op cit.

[13] Antony, Kauzi, Loh and Anderson, op. cit.

[14] Norton and Davis, op. cit.; Anderson and Parton, op. cit; G.W. Norton and P.G. Pardey, Priority-Setting Mechanisms for National Agricultural Research Systems: Present Experience and Future needs, Working Paper No. 7, International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, 1987.

[15] K.A. Parton, J.R. Anderson and J.P. Makeham, Evaluation Methods for Australian Wool Production Research, Agricultural Economics Bulletin No. 29, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, University of New England, Armidale, 1984.

[16] G. Antony and J.R. Anderson, ‘Prediction of the expected economic effects of projects in export-crop research in Papua New Guinea’, paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Brisbane, 12-15 February, 1990.

[17] J. Witworth and G. Kauzi, Commodity Summary No. 1: Coffee, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987; J. Witworth and J. Kiele, Commodity Summary No. 2: Cocoa, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987; J. Witworth and V. Vaii, Commodity Summary No. 3: Copra, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Konedobu, 1987.

[18] AgBank, Field Base Manual, Agriculture Bank of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1986.

[19] L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea cocoa production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economcs, Canberra, 1987; L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea coffee production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra, 1987; L. Jolly, ‘Developing projection methods for Papua New Guinea copra production’, draft paper, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra, 1987.

[20] E. M. Fleming, ‘Short-term supply response for long-term crops in the South Pacific: a comparative study’, unpublished paper, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, University of New England, Armidale, 1989.

[21] The analytical procedure of the study was implemented as a computer package. A Fortran programme was written for the purpose of this study. The user's guide to the programme (G. Antony, User's Guide to Program CBR: Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of Export-Crop Research in Papua New Guinea. Research Bulletin No. 48, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990) contains detailed instructions for deriving the data set for analysis, running the programme and interpreting the results. Results include present values and internal rates of return for the projects at the national level. The output also contains details of the without-and with-research scenarios; quantities of output and producers’ surpluses are shown for each year, region and producer group. A copy of the programme can be obtained from the authors on IBM PC compatible disk. Please specify disk size and density and send $15 to cover costs to: Department of Agricultural Economics, UNE, Armidale, NSW 2351. The programme comes complete with demonstration files and utilities. Only the listing of the Fortran source code is available on a Macintosh disk, and the authors do not support the programme on the Macintosh.

[22] G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken at the Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute, Research Bulletin No. 45, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990; G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken at the Coffee Research Institute, Research Bulletin No. 46, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990; G. Antony, Appraisal of the Expected Economic Effects of Research Projects Planned or Undertaken in Oil Palm in Papua New Guinea, Research Bulletin No. 47, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Port Moresby, 1990.