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Farm Advisory Services and total factor productivity growth in the Irish dairy sector

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  • Iordanis Parikoglou
  • Grigorios Emvalomatis
  • Fiona Thorne
  • Michael Wallace

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This paper investigates the impact of the engagement of individual farmers with Farm Advisory Services (FAS) on total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as a relevant indicator of competitiveness under the vision of sustainable intensification. Using farm-level data from the Irish dairy sector between 2008 and 2017, we estimate a random-coefficients stochastic frontier model and construct a TFP growth index, extending Orea (2002) such that the contribution of FAS becomes an additional component of the index. The results indicate that the main driver of TFP growth was technical change and efficiency gains; a negative scale effect slowed down TFP growth, but this impact was counteracted by the positive contribution of FAS to productivity growth.

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  • Iordanis Parikoglou & Grigorios Emvalomatis & Fiona Thorne & Michael Wallace, 2023. "Farm Advisory Services and total factor productivity growth in the Irish dairy sector," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 50(2), pages 655-682.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:50:y:2023:i:2:p:655-682.
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