Resumen

GARCIA SUAREZ, Federico  y  PEREZ QUESADA, Gabriela. Farm management systems: technical efficiencies differences and technology gap of Uruguay's dairy farms. Estud. Econ. [online]. 2019, vol.36, n.72, pp. 91-115. ISSN 2525-1295.

This study analyzes technological differences between two groups of dairy farms in Uruguay, family and business-managed. The meta-frontier methodology is applied to estimate and compare technical efficiencies between these two groups. Although business-managed farms are more technically efficient than family farms (0.702 and 0.487, respectively) both groups of farmers could obtain productivity gains improving their technical efficiency. Moreover, the two groups are operating under different technology conditions. The estimated average meta-technology ratio for BMF is 0.911 and 0.807 for FF. Therefore, BMF should adopt and invest in new technologies to shift the production function upward and reduce the technology gap while FF could try to implement the prevailing practices that are being used by BMF.

Palabras llave : Technical Efficiency; Technology Gaps; Meta-Frontier; Dairy Production.