A comparison between two materials for head-clamping pads of olive tree shakers: first trials

Bernardi, Bruno; García, Sergio Castro; Blanco-Roldán, Gregorio L.; Benalia, Souraya; Fazari, Antonio; Zimbalatti, Giuseppe

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2018.1199.64

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“…Traditional systems, that are mainly developed in hilly and mountainous areas, are characterized by low levels of adaptation, conversion, and mechanisation, often entailing a not economically viable crop management (Bernardi et al, 2016); on the contrary, the intensive systems are represented by higher yields (both of fruits and oil obtained), as well as higher levels of mechanization that result in high-quality olive oil production, and better levels of farm income (Giametta and Bernardi, 2010). Thus, in an increasingly competitive olive oil market, where the estimated global demand for extra virgin olive oil is steadily growing, modern intensive olive groves can represent an innovative and economically viable opportunity for farmers (Bernardi et al, 2018b;Sola-Guirado et al, 2018). Nevertheless, since the profitability of many Mediterranean olive farms depends, even now, on public subsidies, both reduction in direct payments and internal convergence processes implemented by Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020 reform will entail the decrease in direct support received by farmers, and consequently negative effect on their incomes.…”

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Technical Efficiency Assessment of Intensive and Traditional Olive Farms in Southern Italy

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Olive-growing plays an important role in Southern Italy's agricultural sector. However, the profitability of many olive growing farms depends, still today, on public subsidies. The current changes in the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020, oriented towards the direct payments decreasing, will inevitably have important effects on farmer incomes. This is why the olive farms will have to increase their level of direct profitability to ensure their resilience on the market. Therefore, the measurement of technical efficiency plays a crucial role in identifying more efficient management practices, and for this aim, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) represents the most widely used technique in productivity analysis.In this paper, constant returns to scale and variable returns to scale input-oriented models were used to investigate the technical and scale efficiency of intensive and traditional olive farms in Southern Italy, in order to highlight the performance of each farm.Results showed technical inefficiencies in both olive systems and, suggesting that improvements in the input allocation among all farms are needed. Findings could be useful to suggest the adoption of management strategies to optimize the use of inputs, aiming to achieve suitable levels of productive performance.

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Technical Efficiency Assessment of Intensive and Traditional Olive Farms in Southern Italy

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“…data regarding operational working time and work experience were collected by Famiani et al (2014); studies on vibration frequency, acceleration, and duration transmitted by trunk shakers to plants were performed by Leone et al (2015) and Sola-Guirado et al (2014. In addition, new materials and harvesting machines have been tested by Bernardi et al, (2018b) and Sola-Guirado, Ceular-Ortiz, and Gil-Ribes (2017).…”

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