Strategy to Increase the Farm Competitiveness

Sgroi, Filippo; Trapani, Anna Maria Di; Testa, Riccardo; Tudisca, Salvatore

doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2014.394.400

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“…This sales modality determines a weakened contractual power during price negotiations [66][67][68][69], that causes an uncertainty of economic returns and an increase of business risk [70,71]. Moreover, the small size of the surveyed farms and their production process limit a higher degree of mechanization of farming operations, with a negative impact on production cost, also hindering the introduction of technological innovations [72][73][74].…”

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Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

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Greenhouse tomato cultivation plays an important role in Sicily, being the primary production area in Italy, due to its favorable pedo-climatic conditions that permit extra-seasonal productions. In Sicily, more than half of greenhouse tomato production is derived from the Province of Ragusa on the southeastern coast, where especially cherry tomato typologies are cultivated. Over the last decade, the Ragusa Province has registered a decrease both in terms of greenhouse tomato area and harvested production due to several structural problems that would require restructuring of the tomato supply chain. Thus, since recognition of real costs and profitability of tomato growing is a vital issue, both from the perspective of the farm, as well as from that of the entrepreneur, the aim of this paper was to analyze the economic sustainability of Sicilian greenhouse cherry tomato cultivated in the Ragusa Province. In particular, an economic analysis on 30 representative farms was conducted in order to estimate production costs and profits of greenhouse cherry tomato. According to our results, the lack of commercial organization, which characterizes the small farms we surveyed, determines low contractual power for farmers and, consequently, low profitability.

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Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

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“…For the perspective of the ability of providing healthcare service, it is defined as the coherence degree between the individual's expectation of the healthcare service' outputs and the expertise levels of the existing healthcare service [29]. For the healthcare service organization, high healthcare service quality is one of important keys to improve patient satisfaction, maintain long-term competitive advantage and obtain profits [30,31]. Li and Bento [32] made a point that the necessary conditions for ensuring high quality of healthcare were appropriate technology, timely treatment, adequate demand-based service supply, and acceptable standards of healthcare practice.…”

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Performance Measurement of Healthcare Service and Association Discussion between Quality and Efficiency: Evidence from 31 Provinces of Mainland China

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Performance of healthcare service includes quality and efficiency, so there is inevitably an association between them. In general, it is believed that there is a trade-off between quality and efficiency; however, we prove that it is not completely accurate. We take the quality as an additional output to measure the healthcare service efficiency creatively, and discuss the association between quality and efficiency based on the effect of quality on relative efficiency. Firstly, we use TOPSIS method to calculate relative quality index values of healthcare service of 31 provinces of mainland China. This practice ensures the consistent comparison of 31 provinces' qualities. Subsequently, we measure the 31 provinces' relative performances and efficiencies of healthcare service with consideration of quality or not, by constructing DEA models. Then, we analyze the association between quality and efficiency from each group of the national, east, central and west, and conclude that the association between them is different along with their advantage degrees of quality and efficiency. Finally, we use the Tobit regression method to test 12 environment variables' net impacts on efficiency values both with consideration of quality or not. The results indicate that the main drivers of healthcare service efficiency are different when we take quality as an additional output or not. This article contributes to the field of performance measurement of healthcare service, puts forward a new method to integrate quality and efficiency and provides management guidelines.

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“…Therefore, in this calculation, not only the price should be taken into account (in this case the purchase price and then the loss in purely economic terms), but to be considered also are the negative externalities produced, thus, adding to the price, the estimated availability of society to pay a price for the environmental impact (Sgroi et al, 2014b). Moreover, in the light of the fact that a significant portion of land is used in a less useful way (to produce food that is not consumed) compared to other alternative ways, it might be useful to assess the opportunity cost of agricultural land used to produce goods wasted, in calculating the economic impact.…”

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Analysis and Models for the Reduction of Food Waste in Organized Large-Scale Retail Distribution in Eastern Sicily

Lanfranchi¹,

Giannetto²,

Pascale³

2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Nowadays, food waste is one of the main global paradoxes and raises profound questions from the social point of view. The causes of food losses and food waste are varied and differ according to the various stages of the food chain. The problem of food waste prompted the European Parliament to proclaim 2014 the "European year against food waste" and to adopt a resolution which should lead to a reduction of 50% of waste by the year 2025. This study proposes the possible corrective actions, to be taken at the level of retail distribution and facing the end customer, to achieve the goal reducing of food waste (Fiore et al., 2008). The research was conducted by a group of scholars of the Department of Economics, Business, Environmental and Quantitative Methods, at the University of Messina, on a sample area of eastern Sicily. In particular thirteen retail outlets were analyzed by collecting and processing data on sales, broken down by sector, for the period 2009 to 2013. The research conducted has shown that the food sector that contributes most to food waste, in the area investigated, is that of fruit and vegetables, the study has provided a detailed analysis of the ten most wasted foods. The work finally comes to processes that involve many different scenarios for reducing waste, encouraging a comparison, of the products most wasted, by providing potential solutions or corrective actions aimed at reducing the phenomenon analyzed.

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Strategy to Increase the Farm Competitiveness

Cited by 44 publications

References 33 publications

Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Performance Measurement of Healthcare Service and Association Discussion between Quality and Efficiency: Evidence from 31 Provinces of Mainland China

Analysis and Models for the Reduction of Food Waste in Organized Large-Scale Retail Distribution in Eastern Sicily

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