Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures
Rangeland cattle production is the largest agricultural sector of Uruguay. Ranches produce up to three products (beef, sheep-meat, and wool) usually combined into an equivalent meat (EM) index. The objective is to compare the empirical results from the estimation of a single output stochastic produc...
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| author | Federico García-Suárez Gabriela Pérez-Quesada Carlos Molina Riccetto |
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| description | Rangeland cattle production is the largest agricultural sector of Uruguay. Ranches produce up to three products (beef, sheep-meat, and wool) usually combined into an equivalent meat (EM) index. The objective is to compare the empirical results from the estimation of a single output stochastic production frontier (SPF) and a multi-output stochastic ray frontier (SRF) to provide insights on the use
of the EM index to evaluate ranches performance. Results show similar efficiency scores. The average level of TE is 0.769 for the SPF and 0.779 for the SRF. We cannot discard EM index as a simple measure of combined production. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e13f8a275404815b747c43a2f4dbe132025-08-20T02:51:11ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaEconomía Agraria y Recursos Naturales1578-07322174-73502022-06-01221698810.7201/earn.2022.01.0412501Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measuresFederico García-Suárez0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-0798Gabriela Pérez-Quesada1Carlos Molina Riccetto2University of the RepublicUniversity of the Republic ; Kansas State UniversityUniversity of the Republic ; Instituto Plan AgropecuarioRangeland cattle production is the largest agricultural sector of Uruguay. Ranches produce up to three products (beef, sheep-meat, and wool) usually combined into an equivalent meat (EM) index. The objective is to compare the empirical results from the estimation of a single output stochastic production frontier (SPF) and a multi-output stochastic ray frontier (SRF) to provide insights on the use of the EM index to evaluate ranches performance. Results show similar efficiency scores. The average level of TE is 0.769 for the SPF and 0.779 for the SRF. We cannot discard EM index as a simple measure of combined production.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/14611beefproductionrangeland cattlestochastic production frontierstochastic ray frontier |
| spellingShingle | Federico García-Suárez Gabriela Pérez-Quesada Carlos Molina Riccetto Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales beef production rangeland cattle stochastic production frontier stochastic ray frontier |
| title | Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures |
| title_full | Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures |
| title_fullStr | Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures |
| title_short | Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures |
| title_sort | rangeland cattle production in uruguay single output versus multi output efficiency measures |
| topic | beef production rangeland cattle stochastic production frontier stochastic ray frontier |
| url | https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/14611 |
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