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Los sistemas de gestión predial: diferencias en eficiencia técnica y brechas tecnológicas en los tambos de Uruguay
[Farm management systems: technical Efficiencies differences and technology gap Of uruguay’s dairy farms]

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  • Federico García Suárez
  • Gabriela Pérez Quesada

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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

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  • Federico García Suárez & Gabriela Pérez Quesada, 2019. "Los sistemas de gestión predial: diferencias en eficiencia técnica y brechas tecnológicas en los tambos de Uruguay [Farm management systems: technical Efficiencies differences and technology gap Of," Estudios Economicos, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Economia, vol. 36(72), pages 91-115, january-j.
    • Handle: RePEc:uns:esteco:v:36:y:2019:i:72:p:91-115
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    Keywords

    e?ciencia técnica; brechas tecnológicas; meta-frontera; producción de leche;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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