Changes in Livestock Grazing Efficiency Incorporating Grassland Productivity: The Case of Hulun Buir, China

Zhe Zhao, Yuping Bai, Xiangzheng Deng, Jiancheng Chen, Jian Hou and Zhihui Li
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Zhe Zhao: School of Economics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110136, China
Yuping Bai: School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100191, China
Jiancheng Chen: School of Economic and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Jian Hou: School of Economic and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Zhihui Li: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Land, 2020, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Recently, improving technical efficiency is an effective way to enhance the quality of grass-based livestock husbandry production and promote an increase in the income of herdsmen, especially in the background of a continuing intensification of climate change processes. This paper, based on the survey data, constructs a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model, incorporates net primary productivity (NPP) into the production function as an ecological variable, refines it to the herdsman scale to investigate grassland quality and production capacity, and quantitatively evaluates the technical efficiency of grass-based livestock husbandry and identifies the key influencing factors. The results show that the maximum value of technical efficiency was up to 0.90, and the average value was around 0.53; the herdsmen’s production gap was large and the overall level was relatively low. Additionally, the lack of forage caused by drought was the key factor restricting the current grass-based livestock husbandry production level, and the herdsmen’s adaptive measures, mainly represented as “purchasing forage” and “selling livestock”, had a positive significance for improving technical efficiency. Based on this, expanding the planting area of artificial grassland, improving the efficiency of resource utilization, and enhancing the supply capacity of livestock products while ensuring the ecological security of grassland are effective ways to increase the production level of grass-based livestock husbandry in Hulun Buir.

Keywords: grass-based livestock husbandry; technical efficiency; NPP; Hulun Buir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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