Organic or conventional? Optimal dairy farming technology under the EU milk quota system and organic subsidies

Food Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-229

  Breustedt, Gunnar ^a   Latacz Lohmann, Uwe ^a   Tiedemann, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; EU milk quota; Organic farming; Organic subsidies

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; DAIRY FARMING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEREGULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD POLICY; MILK; ORGANIC FARMING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

EID: 79952313318     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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