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Title: | Evaluating input use efficiency in agriculture through a stochastic frontier production: An application on a case study in Apulia (Italy) | Authors: | benedetti, ilaria Branca, Giacomo Zucaro, Raffaella |
Journal: | JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION | Issue Date: | 2019 | Abstract: | © 2019 The Authors Water is considered the most critical resource for sustainable agricultural development worldwide. Water scarcity has become an issue, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. There is the need to develop efficient management options to reduce water consumption and waste. In order to measure irrigated crop technical efficiency, a stochastic frontier production method – in which the inefficiency component is heteroscedastic – is used with the aim to assess what crop type and production technique revealed highest efficiency. The model is applied to a case study in southern Italy by using 2016 data from the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network. Our results show that the assumption of heteroscedasticity in the one-sided error term in the stochastic frontier is valid: individual farms’ characteristics critically influence technical efficiency. Processing tomato is the most efficient crop production system; organic farms tend to have a lower level of technical efficiency compared to conventional farms; and fertigation system is found to increase the level of technical efficiency. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2067/43045 | ISSN: | 1879-1786 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117609 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Appears in Collections: | A1. Articolo in rivista |
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