Do coupled subsidies increase milk productivity, land use, herd size and income? Evidence from Kosovo

Egzon Bajrami, Eric J. Wailes, Bruce L. Dixon, Arben Musliu and Alvaro Durand-Morat ()

Studies in Agricultural Economics, 2019, vol. 121, issue 3

Abstract: This study assesses the effectiveness of the Subsidy per Head Scheme (SPHS) in increasing milk productivity, land use, herd size and income in dairy farms across the seven regions of Kosovo. SPHS represents one of the largest coupled subsidy programs in the agricultural sector of Kosovo in terms of farmer participation and budget allocation. We use a Propensity Score Matching approach to assess the impact of this program by comparing a group of participants with a group of non-participants during the 2013–2014 farming seasons. We test the robustness of the impact results using four different matching algorithms. Results reveal SPHS was not effective in increasing land use, gross income and farm size (number of cows), although SPHS had a limited impact on improving milk productivity. In addition, the study highlights the need to reformulate coupled subsidies and develop new, complementary strategies that address farmers’ needs more efficiently.

Keywords: Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/296918/files/S ... 0et%20al_134_143.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:stagec:296918

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.296918

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Studies in Agricultural Economics from Research Institute for Agricultural Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().