In this paper, we present calculations of the economic gains in terms of reduced costs by exploiting scale-economies in dairy production in Norway, and the effect this would have had on the number of farms. We also explore whether or not optimal scale and unexploited scale-economies change over time due to scale-augmenting technical change. The analysis is based on homothetic cost functions est...

This study aims to investigate the impacts of personal aspects and aspects of the decision-making process (Rougoor et al., 1998) on the technical efficiencies of citrus farms in Brazil. A variable that measures the adoption of Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) was created, which is an innovative aspect of this paper. Primary data for the crop year of 2013/14 (cross sectional data) were...

The effect of agricultural subsidies on the efficiency farms is one main issues discussed today. Dairy farming benefits from various types and take a lion share support budget. In this context, study has four important aims. Firstly, to analyze technical dairy farms, secondly, investigate effects policy tools efficiency, thirdly determine factors affecting efficiencies finally bring proposals. ...

this study investigated the efficiency of wheat farms in sistan province. the data consisted of 50 samples from crop producers in the sistan region. using the simple sampling method, the data was collected by completing the questionnaires. to evaluate the farm efficiencies, the two approaches of the “data envelopment analysis” and the “optimization model including parameters to control for the ...

in order to study the effective factors in sugar beet production, evaluation of technical, allocative and economical efficiency of sugar beet producers in bardsir city, 150 sugar beet producers were questioned by classified method. data were collected through questionnaire forms filled by producers in 2004-05. the stochastic frontier production and cost function method were used to analyze the ...

This article investigated how process-based animal welfare indicators (PAI) affected the technical efficiency of German dairy farms. A sample of 115 North-Rhine Westphalian dairy farms was used to estimate their technical efficiency with data envelopment analysis. A censored regression model was then applied to quantify the effects of PAI on technical efficiency. The results indicated that in p...

This research analyses the efficiency of China’s banks using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). The Chinese government began its reforms of the banking industry reform since 1978. Our data set contains twelve banks in China during the period of 1996 to 2003. All nominal variables are transformed into real variables in the 2003 prices. There are twelve banks including four state-owned speciali...