Assessing technical efficiency of Chios sheep farms with data envelopment analysis

A Theodoridis, A Ragkos, D Roustemis… - Small Ruminant …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study the level of technical efficiency of 58 Chios sheep farms is estimated with the
implementation of Data Envelopment Analysis. This level of technical efficiency is used as a …

Efficiency Analysis and Identification of Best Practices and Innovations in Dairy Sheep Farming

A Theodoridis, S Vouraki, E Morin, G Koutouzidou… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The adoption of the best practices is crucial for the survival of the dairy sheep farms that
operate under extensive and/or semi-extensive systems. In this study, an efficiency analysis …

Efficiency analysis as a tool for revealing best practices and innovations: the case of the sheep meat sector in Europe

A Theodoridis, S Vouraki, E Morin, LR Rupérez… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The European sheep meat sector faces technical, market and financial
challenges that threaten its economic performance and overall sustainability. At the same …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of capacity utilisation on manufacturing firms' production in Nigeria

SO Okunade - Global Journal of Management and Business …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Despite the significance of capacity utilisation in the production process, it received little
attention from development economists especially in Nigeria where capitals were both …

Productivity growth in German dairy farming using a flexible modelling approach

G Emvalomatis - Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A random‐coefficients specification of an output distance function is used to measure and
decompose productivity growth in German dairy farming. This specification can …

Technical indicators of economic performance in dairy sheep farming

A Theodoridis, A Ragkos, D Roustemis, G Arsenos… - animal, 2014 - cambridge.org
In this study, the level of technical efficiency of 58 sheep farms rearing the Chios breed in
Greece was measured through the application of the stochastic frontier analysis method. A …

Designing successful land reform for the extensive grazing sector

B Conradie - South African Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2019 - ajol.info
The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of success in commercial sheep
farming in the Karoo so that these characteristics can be designed into smallholder …

A meta analysis of farm efficiency: Evidence from the production frontier literature

BE Bravo-Ureta, R Jara-Rojas, MA Lachaud… - 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This study updates previous meta-analysis of farm-level frontier function studies in order to
provide a detailed systematic and comprehensive analysis of the effects that different …

[HTML][HTML] Technology gap in sheep farms in Türkiye

S Canan - Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
The objective of this study was to spatially estimate the technical efficiency of sheep farms
and explore the factors affecting the technical efficiency. Research data were collected …

Panel data estimation methods on supply and demand elasticities: The case of cotton in Greece

CA Kotakou - Journal of Agricultural and Applied …, 2011 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This article examines the effects of the application of panel data estimation methods on a
system of equations with unbalanced panel data. We apply pooled, random-effects, and …