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Automation and efficiency : a latent class analysis of Irish dairy farms
Garcia-Covarrubias, Luis; Läpple, Doris; Dillon, Emma; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-24
the role of automation on farms' technical efficiency (TE) in an expanding dairy sector. We use a representative sample of … Irish dairy farms that includes detailed data on automated technologies. We apply a latent class stochastic frontier model … to assess technology heterogeneity amongst Irish dairy farms to obtain their TE scores. We identify two classes of farms …
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A Case Study of Milk Processing: The Idara-e-Kissan Cooperative
Riaz, Khalid - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 13 (2008) 1, pp. 81-128
The paper focuses on Idara-e-Kissan, a vertically integrated cooperative in the dairy sector, which procures fresh milk …
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L'evoluzione della ruralità nei Paesi in via di sviluppo (PVS). Approcci teorici ed applicativi
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...
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Land in Sicht? Strukturwandel in der deutschen Milchwirtschaft
Hüttel, Silke; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 38, pp. 2-6
Nach einem drastischen Einbruch im vergangenen Jahr ziehen die Milchpreise wieder an. Doch auch künftig kann es zu Preiseinbrüchen in der Milchwirtschaft kommen. Zum einen wirken sich im Zuge der fortschreitenden Liberalisierung der Agrarmärkte internationale Marktentwicklungen verstärkt auf...
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Land in Sicht? Strukturwandel in der deutschen Milchwirtschaft
Hüttel, Silke; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 38, pp. 2-6
Nach einem drastischen Einbruch im vergangenen Jahr ziehen die Milchpreise wieder an. Doch auch künftig kann es zu Preiseinbrüchen in der Milchwirtschaft kommen. Zum einen wirken sich im Zuge der fortschreitenden Liberalisierung der Agrarmärkte internationale Marktentwicklungen verstärkt auf...
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Dynamics of Livestock Sector in Bihar: A Temporal Analysis
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Jha, A.K.; Meena, M.S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
animal health. COMPFED is also providing AI and animal health services to members of Dairy Co-operative societies. BAIF and J … in Bihar and some of them are providing emergency services to dairy farmers. A crash programme may be started to train … some of quacks in animal health to enable them to provide scientific treatment within a short period of time. Dairy co …
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Interregionale und internationale Verflechtung der Ferkelversorgung in Deutschland: Berechnung regionaler Versorgungsbilanzen und Kalkulation der Produktionskosten für Ferkel im in...
Haxsen, Gerhard - 2008
Ziel dieser Studie über die Verflechtung der Ferkelversorgung ist es zum einen quantitativ darzustellen, welche Bedeutung interregionale und internationale Ferkellieferungen für die Schweinemast in Deutschland haben. Zum anderen sollen durch einen Vergleich der Produktionskosten und ihrer...
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The Impact of Agricultural Extension for Improved Management Practices: An Evaluation of the Uruguayan Livestock Program
Maffioli, Alessandro; Muffally, Conner - 2014
Management is an important input into agricultural production, as it a determinant of the uptake and proper implementation of productive technologies and practices. While there is a large literature on evaluations of extension programs meant to improve management practices in agricultural...
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Food Security and Productivity: Impacts of Technology Adoption in Small Subsistence Farmers in Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...
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Relevance of management practices for support of Brazilian farming business growth and the regional development
Bliska, Antonio; de Mello Bliska, Flavia Maria; … - 2015
The farmers spend much of their time with technical issues and routine tasks related to the production process. The administrative aspects of rural activities are usually relegated to a second plane. Thus, planning, information and knowledge acquisition, and development of strategies for...
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