The Dairy sector in Uganda has responded positively to agricultural sector liberalisation policies that took effect in the 1990s. Total national milk production has grown from 460 million litres in 1990 to 1.6 billion litres in 2011, with per capita milk consumption growing from 16 litres in...

Incidence of draught use of cows is high in Bangladesh due to shortage of male cattle. The consequences of this on fertility and milk production of cows and consumption of milk by farming households are shown empirically on the basis of a large survey in Bangladesh.

El proceso de desaparicion de explotaciones y reestructuracion (concentracion de la produccion en unidades de mayor dimension por su cuota), aunque de intensidad variable en la UE-15, prosigue y es previsible que no se detenga, sobre todo si el ciclo de bajos precios de la leche, tras los...

The mountain areas of Austria and Switzerland are important locations for dairy farming. Owing to natural conditions, the milk in these areas is produced at a considerably higher cost. Nevertheless, structural change in the mountain areas of both countries proceeded at a lower pace than in the...

The most important territory of the agricultural production is the rural area. The rural area has effect on the production and the production has effect on the structure of the rural area. The agriculture as a sector was regulated by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which had established by...

The CAP reform of 2003 will change farmer's business environment in Europe. This paper analyses the impact of the reform on the land use in southern German grassland regions. The assessment will be based on model calculations for two typical grassland regions. Each study area represents one...

This paper analyses the development of milk prices and effectiveness of holdings included in particular production category of Farm Accountancy Data Network “411 Milk” and their relations. The influence of prices on profitability, elasticity of production, effectiveness of long-term assets...

En este trabajo utilizamos el analisis envolente de datos (DEA) para estimar la eficiencia tecnica de una muestra de 72 explotaciones lecheras, de la comarca interior de la provincia de la Coruna (Galicia). Pretendemos evaluar se existen diferencias significativas en la eficiencia tecnica entre...

In Finland, expanding dairy farms often face the problem of additional fields being geographically distant and only available as small parcels. We develop a stochastic production frontier model to estimate the technical efficiency of Finnish dairy farms and simulate the effect of parcel distance...

Estudou-se a rentabilidade da atividade leiteira na região de Lavras/MG, analisando a influência do nível tecnológico sobre o custo de produção do leite. Foram identificados os componentes com maior influência sobre os custos finais da atividade e calculado o ponto de equilíbrio. Os...