Open AccessAnálisis de la calidad de la leche en un modelo microeconómico multi-output: El papel de la genética
Author(s) -
Antonio Álvarez,
Carlos Arias,
David Roibás
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economía agraría y recursos naturales/economía agraria y recursos naturales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-7350
pISSN - 1578-0732
DOI - 10.7201/earn.2005.10.01
Subject(s) - milk production , herd , quality (philosophy) , biology , welfare economics , zoology , economics , philosophy , epistemology
In this paper we analyze the influence of genetics on milk quality. For that purpose, we use a multi-output production model in which milk quality is included as an additional output in milk production. A distance function is used to estimate empirically the contribution of genetics to milk quality. For that purpose, we use a panel data of 96 dairy farms in Asturias. This dataset contains indexes measuring the genetic traits of the herd.