Productive efficiency of beef cattle production in Botswana: a latent class stochastic meta-frontier analysis
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Introduction Efficiency in food production is crucial for sustainable agriculture developing countries. This paper contributes to the existing literature by presenting an innovative approach modeling productive efficiency beef cattle production. Treating farm performance across regions as unobserved heterogeneity, we determine technical of Botswana. We aim shed light on factors influencing this sector. Methods The study utilized block-level data from various annual agricultural surveys (2006–2014) covering 26 districts and six agro-ecological employed a latent class stochastic frontier model complemented with meta-frontier analysis. Results show that best performing farming systems terms are well-developed infrastructure better access output input markets. In contrast, perform poorly consist without livestock advisory centers, higher average temperatures foot mouth disease, limiting export mean scores one two were 62 59%, respectively, implying high potential improve using same level inputs through efficiency-enhancing investments. Discussion Based our results, it policies prioritize regionally specific investments address needs under-performing districts. By targeting lagging districts, policymakers can help producers their bridge technological gaps meta-frontier. be achieved infrastructure, services, disease control measures. Such efforts will not only enhance but also contribute overall sustainability sector
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in sustainable food systems
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2571-581X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1098642