Assessing technical efficiency and its determinants for dairy cattle farms in northern Algeria: The two-step DEA-Tobit approach

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

New Medit Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI:10.30682/nm2401i

F. Ameur, Amine Oulmane, Karima Boudedja, Amel Bouzid, M. Amine Benmehaia

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technical efficiency of dairy cattle farms in Tizi Ouzou region as one of the main dairy basins in Algeria. To do so, a two-step analysis was applied. First, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to quantify the technical efficiency of dairy cattle farms. In the second step, a Tobit model to examine factors affecting farms’ technical efficiency is used. The analysis used cross-sectional data collected from 146 dairy cattle farmers. The study found that the average technical efficiency under VRS assumption is relatively high, suggesting that farms can reduce their inputs by an average of 17% while maintaining the same level of output. The study also highlights the crucial role that agricultural advisory system and traditional insemination play in enhancing technical efficiency. In this region, where cattle breeding is traditionally practiced on a small scale, increasing herd size can result in reduced performance. The study also recommended that agricultural policies should be adapted to local specificities and that a more supportive strategy should be adopted for small-scale family dairy farms instead of promoting the large farm model.

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评估阿尔及利亚北部奶牛场的技术效率及其决定因素：两步 DEA-Tobit 法

本文旨在分析阿尔及利亚主要奶牛盆地之一的提济乌祖地区奶牛场的技术效率。为此，采用了两步分析法。首先，采用数据包络分析法（DEA）量化奶牛场的技术效率。第二步，使用 Tobit 模型研究影响牧场技术效率的因素。分析使用了从 146 个奶牛养殖户收集的横截面数据。研究发现，VRS 假设下的平均技术效率相对较高，表明农场在保持相同产出水平的情况下平均可减少 17% 的投入。研究还强调了农业咨询系统和传统人工授精在提高技术效率方面的关键作用。在该地区，传统的养牛方式是小规模饲养，增加牛群规模会导致牛群性能下降。研究还建议，农业政策应适应当地的具体情况，应采取更多支持小型家庭奶牛场的战略，而不是推广大型农场模式。

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New Medit AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

30.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： New Medit is an applied economics journal, with a multidisciplinary approach, aimed at providing insights into the economic and the social transformations of agro-food sector, rural societies as well as local development and bioeconomy in the Mediterranean Basin. Manuscripts submitted to NEW MEDIT generally should deal with wide-ranging topics that can be extended to other countries where organisational, production and market conditions and the related development policies may emerge at the corporate or regional level.