This paper assesses the total factor productivity (TFP) growth and efficiency levels in the Indian dairy processing … frontier is used. Our results suggest that total factor productivity in the Indian dairy processing industry has grown … the productivity growth in the Indian dairy industry. The non-increasing returns to scale DEA frontier analysis suggests …

The U.S. dairy industry is undergoing rapid structural change, evolving from a structure including many small farmers …

objective of this article is to reveal the relationship between technical efficiency and the economic success of dairy farms and … to determine farm specific factors affecting both. The data set contains observations of more than 2 000 Bavarian dairy …

dairy farms. Bearing in mind data limitations we find that average technical efficiency is 59 per cent, but there are … dairy deregulation in July 2000 providing an ex post explanation for the changing composition of dairy farms in Australia …

This study analyzes the determinants of TE among traditional dairy farms in the State of Wisconsin taking into account … dairy farms’ heterogeneity. To do so, we first estimate a production frontier and the level of TE using the SPF framework …

—including modifications to animal management or housing—tend to increase production costs and capital expenditures. Dairy cows are … particularly sensitive to heat stress, and the dairy sector has been estimated to bear over half of the costs of current heat …

dairy and cereal, oilseed and protein seed (COP) sectors during 2001-2004. The analyses is performed with Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA) under separate and common frontiers. Results indicate that Hungarian dairy farmers are more clustered to their … own frontier than French farms are, but that the difference is less clear in COP farming. Hungarian dairy and COP farms …