Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Pereira Filho,Carlos Augusto
Data de Publicação: 2003
Outros Autores: Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento de Souza
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
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Resumo: The main objective of this study was to identify and analyze the sources of inefficiency in family operated small agricultural properties in the Brazilian state of Bahia’s Recôncavo region from a sample of 44 producers. A non-parametric approach, in the context of cost minimizing behavior under constant returns to scale, was used to estimate the indices of technical, scale, allocative, and total (economic or cost) efficiency. Results indicated that the largest source small family farm inefficiency in the Recôncavo region is allocative inefficiency, that is to say, the non-observance of price relationships when making production decisions. On the average, 79.1% of these farms’ total inefficiency is due to allocative inefficiency, 9.3% to technical inefficiency, and 11.7% to scale inefficiency.
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title Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
spellingShingle Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
Pereira Filho,Carlos Augusto
peasant household
economic efficiency
non-parametric model
title_short Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
title_full Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
title_fullStr Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
title_sort Sources of small family farm production inefficiency, recôncavo region, Bahia, Brazil
author Pereira Filho,Carlos Augusto
author_facet Pereira Filho,Carlos Augusto
Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento de Souza
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author2 Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento de Souza
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pereira Filho,Carlos Augusto
Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento de Souza
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv peasant household
economic efficiency
non-parametric model
topic peasant household
economic efficiency
non-parametric model
description The main objective of this study was to identify and analyze the sources of inefficiency in family operated small agricultural properties in the Brazilian state of Bahia’s Recôncavo region from a sample of 44 producers. A non-parametric approach, in the context of cost minimizing behavior under constant returns to scale, was used to estimate the indices of technical, scale, allocative, and total (economic or cost) efficiency. Results indicated that the largest source small family farm inefficiency in the Recôncavo region is allocative inefficiency, that is to say, the non-observance of price relationships when making production decisions. On the average, 79.1% of these farms’ total inefficiency is due to allocative inefficiency, 9.3% to technical inefficiency, and 11.7% to scale inefficiency.
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