@article{Ma:174719,
      recid = {174719},
      author = {Ma, Hengyun and Rae, Allan N. and Huang, Jikun and  Rozelle, Scott},
      title = {Enhancing Productivity on Dairy Farms in China: Taking the  Cows to Town},
      address = {2006},
      number = {417-2016-26342},
      pages = {39},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Dairy farms in China’s suburban areas have been playing an  important role in providing urban markets with fresh milk.  With the construction of dairy cattle concentration centres  and more cows being driven to the concentration centres,  small and scattered dairy farms are gradually disappearing  and more concentrated dairy cattle farming is being formed  near suburban areas. This paper uses farm survey data and  stochastic input distance functions to make estimates of  total factor productivity (TFP) on suburban dairy farms, as  well as for the entire dairy sector. The results show that  over the past decade technical change and TFP growth have  been positive on suburban dairy farms, but that on average  such farms have been falling behind the advancing technical  frontier. Further, the rate of technical change has been  more rapid on suburban farms than for the dairy sector as a  whole. The results suggest efforts to achieve a more even  adoption of new technologies within the suburban dairy  sector will further advance productivity growth in the  sector.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174719},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.174719},
}