Rangeland cattle production in Uruguay: Single-output versus multi-output efficiency measures

[EN] 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 p...

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Autores: García-Suárez, Federico, Pérez-Quesada, Gabriela, Molina Riccetto, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/183868
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/183868
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Beef
Production
Rangeland cattle
Stochastic production frontier
Stochastic ray frontier
Carne
Producción
Ganadería
Fronteras de producción estocásticas
Fronteras de rayo estocásticas
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Sumario:[EN] 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 useof 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.