Cost and Return Analysis and Technical Efficiency of Small Scale Milk Production: A Case Study for Cukurova Region, Turkey

Alemdar, Tuna; Bahadir, Burhan; Ören, Mustafa

doi:10.3923/javaa.2010.844.847

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“…An increase of concentrates by 10% increased milk yield by 5.9%. Alemdar (2010), Saravanakumar and Jain (2007) and Binici (2006) reported close results to those of this study. The reasons for underfeeding animals with concentrates were its cost, farmers not keeping production records, lack of information on its importance and learning from the other practicing farmers and less from the extension service providers.…”

Section: Mles Of Stochastic Frontier Cost Functionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Assessment of performance of smallholder dairy farms in Kenya: An econometric approach

Kimenchu¹,

Mwangi²,

Kairu³

et al. 2015

J. App. Bioscience.

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Objective: The aim of the study was to estimate the technical and cost efficiencies of smallholder dairy farms in Kenya (Embu and Meru counties). Methodology and results: Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey from 135 (96 in Embu and 39 Meru) randomly sampled farms using semi-structured questionnaires. Stochastic frontier production and cost functions were estimated using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique. It revealed zero-grazed herds of four animals (mainly Friesians and Ayrshires) on two-acre sized farms that practice mixed crop-livestock farming system. The animals were underfed daily with roughages (52.2 Kg), concentrates (2.2 Kg) and mineral supplements (37 g); producing 15 Kg of milk on average. The major factors influencing milk output were the number of lactating cows and the amounts of roughages, concentrates and mineral supplements, while the prices of roughages and labour caused most variation in its production cost. The mean farmers' technical and cost efficiencies were 83.7 and 95.6%, respectively. The production model coefficient was 2.11. These results implied that milk production could be increased by 16.3% through better use of available resources given the current state of technology without extra cost, while the cost of milk production could be decreased by about 4.4% without decreasing output. Conclusion and application of results: The results indicate that optimization of farm efficiencies could increase milk yields while concurrently lowering its production cost. The study further provides evidence that any efforts towards reducing land sub-division and promotion of enterprise specialization could increase milk affordability.

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Section: Mles Of Stochastic Frontier Cost Functionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Assessment of performance of smallholder dairy farms in Kenya: An econometric approach

Kimenchu¹,

Mwangi²,

Kairu³

et al. 2015

J. App. Bioscience.

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“…La RE es un indicador que cuantifica de manera contable las relaciones de intercambio de las UPL con el mercado, por lo que refleja el equilibrio entre el costo de la mano de obra y los insumos, con el precio de los productos pagados al participante en la cadena de producción lechera (7,8) . También, la RE es sensible a la disponibilidad de recursos agroecológicos, distorsiones del mercado por…”

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“…As an indicator, EP quantifies the exchange relationships between the dairy farms and the market; in other words, it reflects the balance between labor and input costs, and the product price paid to milk production chain participants (7,8) . This indicator is also sensitive to agroecological resource availability, market distortion from subsidies, hoarding, national price controls, and international prices for milk products, inputs and milk substitutes (9)(10)(11)(12) .…”

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Brechas de rentabilidad económica en pequeñas unidades de producción de leche en el altiplano central mexicano

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Entre las grandes y pequeñas unidades de producción lechera (PUPL) existen brechas en la rentabilidad económica (RE) debido a economías de escala significativas; aunque también pueden hallarse al interior del estrato de pequeña escala, dificultando el avance tecnológico y sustentabilidad de la producción lechera. El objetivo fue identificar la presencia de brechas de RE y relacionarlas con los factores productivos de PUPL. Se entrevistaron 89 propietarios de PUPL del Altiplano Central Mexicano (Valle de Aguascalientes) registrados en el Programa de Capacitación y Asistencia Técnica de SAGARPA (2011; muestra con 95 % de confiabilidad y 10% de precisión; 162 variables; PUPL con <50 vacas <10 personas ocupadas, PO). Se calculó anualizada la relación beneficio costo neto (BCN), valor agregado (VA) y factores que influyeron en la existencia de BCN>1.0. Sólo una de cinco PUPL tuvo resultados superavitarios (17/89=19.1 %; IC95%: 14.9, 23.3%), asociados directamente (P<0.05) con mayor ingreso total, VA, PO, familiares con salario, vacas atendidas/PO, precio de venta y costo de alimentación; e inversamente con menor costo de insumos, proporción de autoconsumo familiar y valor de activos y ganado. La mano de obra familiar (2.2 PO/PUPL) predominó (85.4 %) pero no influyó significativamente en BCN (P=0.787). Los ganaderos que estuvieron organizados tuvieron mejores resultados (P<0.05) que aquellos que permanecieron aislados (BCN>1.0: 7/20 vs 10/69). Estos resultados sugieren que las políticas públicas y privadas pudieran enfocar sus esfuerzos a cerrar las brechas de RE entre PUPL, mejorando el alcance del potencial técnico de producción, las estrategias de intercambio comercial, la preservación del empleo y recursos naturales.

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“…To do so, these studies have used either a nonparametric method such as Data Envelopment Analysis (Tauer, 1998;Alemdar et al, 2010) or an econometric approach such as stochastic (production, cost or profit) frontier models (Cuesta, 2000;Bravo-Ureta et al, 2008). These two methodologies have also been used to analyze the potential sources of inefficiencies (Tauer and Mishra, 2006;Murova and Chidmi, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

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International Journal of Business, Economics and Management

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In Uasin Gishu County the rapidly declining household land sizes are a pre-requisite to increased intensification in dairy production. Although the three dairy production pathways are used by farmers in the County 158 Contribution/ OriginalityThis study contributes in the existing literature on competitiveness. It uses new estimation methodology for estimating technical efficiency. It is one of very few studies which have investigated livestock performance. The paper contributes the first logical analysis of efficiency and this increased with intensification. This study documents milk production efficiency.

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Cost and Return Analysis and Technical Efficiency of Small Scale Milk Production: A Case Study for Cukurova Region, Turkey

Cited by 12 publications

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Assessment of performance of smallholder dairy farms in Kenya: An econometric approach

Assessment of performance of smallholder dairy farms in Kenya: An econometric approach

Brechas de rentabilidad económica en pequeñas unidades de producción de leche en el altiplano central mexicano

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