Bardhan Dwaipayan, Sharma Murari Lal
Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand India.
Springerplus. 2013 Dec;2(1):65. doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-65. Epub 2013 Feb 23.
The study was undertaken in Kumaon division of Uttarakhand state of India with the objective of estimating technical efficiency in milk production across different herd-size category households and factors influencing it. Total of 60 farm households having representation from different herd-size categories drawn from six randomly selected villages of plain and hilly regions of the division constituted the ultimate sampling units of the study. Stochastic frontier production function analysis was used to estimate the technical efficiency in milk production. Multivariate regression equations were fitted taking technical efficiency index as the regressand to identify the factors significantly influencing technical efficiency in milk production. The study revealed that variation in output across farms in the study area was due to difference in their technical efficiency levels. However, it was interesting to note that smallholder producers were more technically efficient in milk production than their larger counterparts, especially in the plains. Apart from herd size, intensity of market participation had significant and positive impact on technical efficiency in the plains. This provides definite indication that increasing the level of commercialization of dairy farms would have beneficial impact on their production efficiency.
该研究在印度北阿坎德邦的库马盎地区开展，目的是估计不同畜群规模类别家庭的牛奶生产技术效率及其影响因素。从该地区平原和山区六个随机选取的村庄中抽取的、代表不同畜群规模类别的60个农户构成了该研究的最终抽样单位。采用随机前沿生产函数分析来估计牛奶生产的技术效率。以技术效率指数为被解释变量拟合多元回归方程，以确定显著影响牛奶生产技术效率的因素。研究表明，研究区域内各农场产量的差异是由于其技术效率水平不同。然而，有趣的是，小农户在牛奶生产上的技术效率高于大农户，尤其是在平原地区。除畜群规模外，市场参与强度对平原地区的技术效率有显著的正向影响。这明确表明，提高奶牛场的商业化水平将对其生产效率产生有益影响。
