摘要
本文表明农场主之间的联合经营体(partnership arrangements)可能是保障农场经济生存能力和提高效益的途径之一。本文讨论了三种不同协作类型的经验分析,并强调了与协作经营关联的环境改善。在第一个案例中,对牛奶场和种植农场的协作进行了分析,结果表明多样化的提高和轮作具有实质的潜在效益,当协作包括机械时,其潜在效益更高。第二个例子论及生猪育崽和精饲管理的外部综合条件。协作利润源于生物因子和技术因子两方面,诸如提高生长率和增加猪舍的利用率等。最后,本文对一组种植农场协作进行了评估,认为效益的增加主要得益于机械费用的减少和/或来自其它因素的收益,如轮作和管理、营销策略等的改善。
In this paper,it is demonstrated that partnership arrangements between farmers might be a way to secure the economic viability of their farms as well as to increase profitability.The article discusses empirical analyses of three different forms of collaboration,with an emphasis on the environmental improvements associated with collaboration.Collaboration between a dairy farm and a crop farm is analyzed in the first case.The results show that potential gains from improved diversification and crop rotation are substantial,and even larger when the collaboration also involves machinery.The second analysis considers external integration between farrowing and finishing-pig operations.Gains from collaboration originate from biological and technical factors,such as improved growth rate of the pigs and better utilization of buildings.Finally,an evaluation of a group of collaborating crop farmers is performed. In this case,the benefits that arise are mainly due to reduced machinery costs and/or gains due to other factors,such as improved crop rotation and managerial/marketing strategies.
