Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures
[EN] Rangeland cattle production is the largest agricultural sector of Uruguay. Ranches produce up to three products (beef, sheep-meat, and wool) usually combined into an equivalent meat (EM) index. The objective is to compare the empirical results from the estimation of a single output stochastic p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Publication date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repository: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/183868 |
| Online Access: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/183868 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Beef Production Rangeland cattle Stochastic production frontier Stochastic ray frontier Carne Producción Ganadería Fronteras de producción estocásticas Fronteras de rayo estocásticas |
| Summary: | [EN] Rangeland cattle production is the largest agricultural sector of Uruguay. Ranches produce up to three products (beef, sheep-meat, and wool) usually combined into an equivalent meat (EM) index. The objective is to compare the empirical results from the estimation of a single output stochastic production frontier (SPF) and a multi-output stochastic ray frontier (SRF) to provide insights on the useof the EM index to evaluate ranches performance. Results show similar efficiency scores. The average level of TE is 0.769 for the SPF and 0.779 for the SRF. We cannot discard EM index as a simple measure of combined production. |
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