The dairy sector in Uganda has been transformed into a more competitive and dynamic sector. Supply-side factors have enabled expansion in milk production. Between 2005 and 2009 –milk production (estimated at 1.5 billion litres in 2010) has been partly an outcome of a 20 percent increase in the...

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture implies changes in farm management practices. Knowledge on farmers’ current adoption of management practices aimed at reducing emissions, and their preferences regarding these, is important to inform the development of robust climate change mitigation...

The analysis of the 2009 Uganda National panel Survey (UNPS) collected by the UBoS shows that milk production from smallholder farm units was 1 billion litres, and about 52 percent (524 million litres) joined the second level of the milk value chain – and of which 72 percent was marketed in...

Die Neue Institutionenökonomie wird in der agrarökonomischen Forschung häufig als Erklärung dafür herangezogen, dass Landwirte in Genossenschaftsmolkereien auf die Maximierung des Auszahlungspreises fokussiert sind und daher strategische Investitionen ablehnen. Da die Molkereien auf die...

Even after more than 15 years of transition from plan to market, agriculture in Ukraine still faces many challenges in terms of its structure. The evidence in the literature points to significant heterogeneity of technical efficiency and productivity scores in Ukraine. Moreover, both the...

Farmers who produce multiple outputs are portfolio managers in the sense that they use inputs to balance expected economic return and variance of return. This paper estimates the structure of the stochastic multi-output production technology in Norwegian dairy farming, allowing for a more...

The abolishment of the dairy quota system in the EU is expected to increase competition across dairy farms in Europe. Assuming a common price for milk in the EU, only the most efficient farms will survive in the new environment. The main objective of the paper is to compare dairy farms in...

DairyNZ funded a two-year study on dairy farm ownership and management structures (June 2005 to May 2007), followed by a study on dairy farm succession in 2007/08. Farm business structures affect wealth creation and distribution, and determine who the dairy industry participants are and will be,...

The objective was to estimate an index for measuring the level of technological development of dairy farming in Western of Pará State. Data were obtained from the survey of 176 producers distributed in the municipalities of Itaituba, Rurópolis, Trairão and Placas. The variables representing...

Conhecer as diferentes metodologias, classificações, composições dos custos e indicadores econômicos se torna primordial na gestão dos sistemas produtivos. Desta forma, o objetivo do presente trabalho é apresentar uma revisão teórica sobre análise econômica e custos de produção,...