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Competitiveness of cattle breeding in Switzerland: the value of policies enabling informed decisions

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Using the case of of Swiss Brown Cattle breeding, this paper develops the hypothesis that a two-angle strategy of fostering competition and providing maxi-mum access to information is promising for states to attain high competitiveness on a national level. Abandoning the monopoly on bull sperm while subsidising classifica-tions of animals in order to provide a maximum base of knowledge helped to increase Switzerland’s self-sufficiency in Brown Cattle sperm from under 50 to almost 100 per cent.

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  • Mann, Stefan, 2019. "Competitiveness of cattle breeding in Switzerland: the value of policies enabling informed decisions," Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 8(3), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aieabj:307423
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307423
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