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Technical efficiency and metatechnology ratios for dairy farms in three southern cone countries: a stochastic meta-frontier model.
- Source :
- Journal of Productivity Analysis; Feb2010, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p33-45, 13p, 6 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This paper compares technical efficiency (TE) and metatechnology ratios (MTR) for dairy farms from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay using the meta-frontier (MF) approach. The estimated average MTRs for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are 83.8, 79.6 and 91.4%, respectively, and these results are significantly different from each other. The TEs estimated with respect to the MF are 72.8, 65.8 and 73.4% for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, respectively. The average TEs for Argentina and Uruguay are not significantly different from each other but are significantly higher than the value for Chile. The production frontiers for Argentina and Uruguay are relatively close to the MF, which suggests that these two countries might need to increase investments to promote local research to generate new technologies and/or search for technologies to adapt from more distant areas. By contrast, Chile could benefit from adaptive research, designed to make borrowed technology from Argentina and/or Uruguay applicable to local conditions, which could be a cost effective way to improve dairy farm performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DAIRY farms
DAIRY products
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0895562X
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Productivity Analysis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 47279702
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-009-0144-8