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8. Inefficiency in Animal Production: A Parametric Approach

Authors : Emiliana Silva, Fátima Venâncio

Published in: Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector

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A stochastic frontier approach (SFA) was estimated for three types of farms using Frontier Software. The groups of farms were created using cluster analysis and SPSS Statistical package for the Social Sciences. The Frontier Program allowed the estimation of efficiency (model I) and inefficiency models (model II). The efficiency in Faial (Azores) island farms was higher than 82%, and the most important inefficiency variables were subsidies, equipment amortization and small dimension.

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Title: Inefficiency in Animal Production: A Parametric Approach
Authors: Emiliana Silva
Fátima Venâncio
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Book: Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-5738-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-5739-4

Copyright Year: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5739-4_8

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