Technical Efficiency, Environment Efficiency, Productivity and Beneficial Management Practices

Lota Tamini, Larue Bruno and Gale E. West

No 102067, Working Papers from Structure and Performance of Agriculture and Agri-products Industry (SPAA)

Abstract: An input distance function (IDF) is estimated to empirically evaluate and analyze the technical and environmental efficiencies of 210 farms located in the Chaudière watershed (Quebec), where water quality problems are particularly acute because of the production of undesirable outputs that are jointly produced with agricultural products. The true IDF is approximated by a flexible translog functional form estimated using a full information maximum likelihood method. Technical and environmental efficiencies are disaggregated across farms and account for spatial variations. Our results show that there is a significant correlation between technical and environmental efficiencies. Farms that are technically efficient tend to be environmentally efficient. We used the cumulative Malmquist productivity index and the Fisher index to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water pollution. We found significant differences across BMPs regarding the direction and the magnitude of their effect on profitability, efficiency and productivity.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2011-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.102067

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