 Los sistemas de gestión predial: diferencias en eficiencia técnica y brechas tecnológicas en los tambos de UruguayFarm management systems: technical Efficiencies differences and technology gap Of uruguay’s dairy farmsFederico García Suárez and Gabriela Pérez Quesada () Estudios Economicos, 2019, vol. 036 (Nueva Serie), issue 72, 91-115 Abstract: This study analyzes technological differences between two groups of dairy farms in Uruguay, family and business managed. The meta frontier methodology is applied to estimate and compare technical ef? ciencies between these two groups. Although business managed farms are more technically ef? cient than family farms (0.702 and 0.487, respectively) both groups of farmers could obtain productivity gains improving their technical ef? ciency. Moreover, the two groups are operating under different technology conditions. The estimated average meta technology ratio for BMF is 0.911 and 0.807 for FF. Therefore, BMF should adopt and invest in new technologies to shift the production function upward and reduce the technology gap while FF could try to implement the prevailing practices that are being used by BMF Keywords: e?ciencia técnica; brechas tecnológicas; meta-frontera; producción de leche; technical ef?ciency; technology gaps; meta-frontier; dairy production (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uns:esteco:v:36:y:2019:i:72:p:91-115 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Estudios Economicos from Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Economia Contact information at EDIRC. |
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