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Scale Difference from the Impact of Disease Control on Pig Production Efficiency

SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper uses the data of fixed observation points in the country’s rural areas, the Data Envelopment Analysis model is used to calculate the production efficiency of pig farmers, which shows the efficiency level of pig breeding in the country. Then, the Tobit model is used to anal...

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Autores principales: Hu, Yaguan, Yu, Yanli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36230387
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12192647
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper uses the data of fixed observation points in the country’s rural areas, the Data Envelopment Analysis model is used to calculate the production efficiency of pig farmers, which shows the efficiency level of pig breeding in the country. Then, the Tobit model is used to analyze that epidemic prevention and control has a positive effect on production efficiency. Finally, the threshold regression model was used to analyze the results: the effect of disease control on production efficiency was different under different breeding scales. When the breeding scale was less than 6.0002, the disease control had a negative impact on the production efficiency. When the breeding scale was greater than 12.9994, the disease control had a positive impact on the production efficiency. The research results of this paper not only help farmers to correctly understand the relationship between epidemic prevention and production efficiency, guide farmers to expand their breeding scale, and actively participate in epidemic prevention and control, but also provide a reference for the government to formulate policies according to different scales to guide farmers to carry out epidemic prevention and control. ABSTRACT: Epidemic disease prevention plays a critical role in ensuring the healthy development of livestock farming, and the subjective willingness of breeders can be affected by the cost of epidemic disease prevention. To correct the misconception that farmers regard the cost of disease control as an ineffective cost, and to promote the healthy development of the pig breeding industry, our study employed the data envelopment analysis super-efficiency model and panel threshold regression model to evaluate the combination of the cost of epidemic disease prevention and swine productivity using data collected from 1998–2018 across 30 provinces in China. The following results were obtained. (1) The cost of epidemic disease prevention generated a non-linear on swine productivity when the swine farming scale was limited; (2) When the number of animals at the beginning of the year was less than 6.0002, swine productivity was impacted negatively; (3) When the number of animals at the beginning of the year ranged between 6.0002 and 12.9994, the impact was insignificant; (4) A strong correlation was observed between the expenses of epidemic disease prevention and animal productivity when the number of animals at the beginning of the year exceeded 12.9994. These results indicate that publicity should be enhanced to elucidate the combination of epidemic disease prevention and swine productivity among breeders. In addition, the government should introduce relevant policies to encourage the development of large-scale pig farming, such as subsidies for the construction of large-scale farms and insurance.
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spelling pubmed-95595722022-10-14 Scale Difference from the Impact of Disease Control on Pig Production Efficiency Hu, Yaguan Yu, Yanli Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper uses the data of fixed observation points in the country’s rural areas, the Data Envelopment Analysis model is used to calculate the production efficiency of pig farmers, which shows the efficiency level of pig breeding in the country. Then, the Tobit model is used to analyze that epidemic prevention and control has a positive effect on production efficiency. Finally, the threshold regression model was used to analyze the results: the effect of disease control on production efficiency was different under different breeding scales. When the breeding scale was less than 6.0002, the disease control had a negative impact on the production efficiency. When the breeding scale was greater than 12.9994, the disease control had a positive impact on the production efficiency. The research results of this paper not only help farmers to correctly understand the relationship between epidemic prevention and production efficiency, guide farmers to expand their breeding scale, and actively participate in epidemic prevention and control, but also provide a reference for the government to formulate policies according to different scales to guide farmers to carry out epidemic prevention and control. ABSTRACT: Epidemic disease prevention plays a critical role in ensuring the healthy development of livestock farming, and the subjective willingness of breeders can be affected by the cost of epidemic disease prevention. To correct the misconception that farmers regard the cost of disease control as an ineffective cost, and to promote the healthy development of the pig breeding industry, our study employed the data envelopment analysis super-efficiency model and panel threshold regression model to evaluate the combination of the cost of epidemic disease prevention and swine productivity using data collected from 1998–2018 across 30 provinces in China. The following results were obtained. (1) The cost of epidemic disease prevention generated a non-linear on swine productivity when the swine farming scale was limited; (2) When the number of animals at the beginning of the year was less than 6.0002, swine productivity was impacted negatively; (3) When the number of animals at the beginning of the year ranged between 6.0002 and 12.9994, the impact was insignificant; (4) A strong correlation was observed between the expenses of epidemic disease prevention and animal productivity when the number of animals at the beginning of the year exceeded 12.9994. These results indicate that publicity should be enhanced to elucidate the combination of epidemic disease prevention and swine productivity among breeders. In addition, the government should introduce relevant policies to encourage the development of large-scale pig farming, such as subsidies for the construction of large-scale farms and insurance. MDPI 2022-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9559572/ /pubmed/36230387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12192647 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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