Impact of technology adoption on livestock production efficiency incorporating grassland productivity

Yi Huang, Zhipeng Huang, Gang Xu and Yan Zhang

China Agricultural Economic Review, 2024, vol. 17, issue 2, 269-285

Abstract: Purpose - Grassland degradation is a global ecological issue that inevitably leads to low livestock production efficiency (LPE). Adoption of appropriate technology is an effective way to improve productivity. However, the rate of technology adoption among herders in less developed pastoral areas is low. Therefore, it is critical to improve the level of technology adoption in order to increaseLPE. Design/methodology/approach - Based on remote sensing data and survey datasets of herder households in China’s Qinghai–Xizang Plateau, this paper innovatively constructs a stochastic production frontier model incorporating grassland productivity (i.e. grassland total net primary productivity) to accurately evaluateLPEand uses fractional regression models to determine the impact of technology adoption onLPE. Findings - The results show that grassland productivity is essential to estimatingLPE, and failing to account for it will result in overestimation. Technology adopters have a technical advantage with respect to averageLPE(0.596) when compared with non-adopters (0.540), and technology adoption positively contributes toLPE. Furthermore, compared with profit-seeking technology, pro-environmental technology contributes more to improvingLPE, and the combined adoption of both technologies leads to a markedly greater enhancement inLPE. Originality/value - Few studies have empirically analyzed the economic benefits of technologies that most smallholders can afford, and few measureLPEconsidering grassland productivity. This study fills these gaps, and the findings are highly relevant for policies aimed at encouraging technology adoption and facilitating more efficient livestock production.

Keywords: Technology adoption; Livestock production efficiency; Grassland; Remote sensing; Total net primary productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1108/CAER-03-2024-0077

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