An empirical method to measure the relative efficiency of dairy producers using deterministic frontier analysis


Shahram RostamPour


The purpose of this paper is to measure the relative efficiencies of various cow husbandries. The proposed model of this paper uses deterministic frontier analysis to measure the performance of different units responsible for taking care of cows. We gather the necessary information of all units including number of cows, amount of internet usage, number of subunits for taking care of cows, amount of forage produced in each province for grazing livestock and average hour per person training courses as independent variables and consider the amount of produced milk as dependent variable. The necessary information are collected from all available units located in different provinces of Iran and the production function is estimated using a linear programming model. The results indicate that the capital city of Iran, Tehran, holds the highest technical efficiency, the lowest efficiency belongs to province of Ilam and other provinces mostly performs poorly.


DOI: j.msl.2011.09.001

Keywords: Distribution free analysis ,Measuring relative efficiency ,Dairy industry ,Stochastic frontier analysis ,Data envelopment analysis ,Deterministic frontier analysis

How to cite this paper:

RostamPour, S. (2012). An empirical method to measure the relative efficiency of dairy producers using deterministic frontier analysis.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 229-234.


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