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The aim of the paper was an evaluation of the economic efficiency of dairy production in relation to the total labour input per 1 cow. The research was done in 158 dairy farms. The farms with the lowest labour expenditure on 1 dairy cow had the biggest arable land surface, the highest annual...
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Japanese farm. The site-specific nature of numerous agri-environmental issues necessitates analysis ata disaggregated level in … order to capture the underlying heterogeneity of agricultural productivity and environmentalsensitivity across different …
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This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
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-sized catfish at the farm level. Using the autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds testing procedure, a long …-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their determinants was confirmed. Given the effect of corn and soybean meal prices on … catfish feed prices, and catfish fish feed prices on farm prices, the long-run responsiveness of feed prices to a percentage …
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against projected demand for wheat. Next, they present strategies for increasing productivity in favored and less favored …
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The measurement of productivity fluctuations has been the focus of decades-long interest. In addition to broad … structural forces driving productivity changes, there is more recent interest in measuring and identifying the heterogeneous … productivity growth arising from the accumulation of production experience by a firm. This paper proposes a bounded learning …
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The Mekong Delta in Vietnam has become an important production area for pangasius. The importance of the sector in providing an income to many households means that it is relevant to study its economic production characteristics. In this article we use a stochastic cost frontier model to assess...
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Market interactions between the common-property commercial fishery and (1) competitive aquaculturists and (2) a dominant-firm aquaculturist are modeled. It is found that the entry of a competitive aquaculturist increases natural fish stocks, reduces price, and increases total supply. If...
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