A MULTIPURPOSE SIMULATION MODEL OF DAIRY/FORAGE FARMING SYSTEMS IN NORTHWESTERN SPAIN (GALICIA).

摘要

Galician dairy farming is characterized by widespread inefficiencies due to a variety of reasons such as, small size of farms, poor management of herd and pasture, deficient sanitation, lack of modern equipment, lack of access to credit, and faulty marketing channels. All these deficiencies result in low returns to factors of production. The problems of Galician dairy farmers may be compounded by the eventual accession of Spain into the European Economic Community (EEC) which may result in an adverse change of input and output prices and create many other additional uncertainties.;Policy efforts to restructure the Galician dairy industry focus on the availability of underused resources, mainly land and labor, of the typical farm. Releasing the constraints blocking the full use of these resources, through the supply of credit and technical assistance in order to raise the level of efficiency of Galician farms, is at the core of the policy-makers strategy. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI