Data/hora: 01/06/2024 04:23:10

Provedor de dados: | 42
País: | Brazil
Título: | Technical efficiency analysis of marine shrimp farming (Litopenaeus vannamei) in biofloc and conventional systems: A case study in northeastern Brazil
Autores: | REGO,MARCELO A.S.; SABBAG,OMAR J.; SOARES,ROBERTA B.; PEIXOTO,SILVIO.
Data: | 2018-12-01
Ano: | 2018
Palavras-chave: | Data envelopment analysis; Inefficiency; Productive systems; Shrimp farming.
Resumo: | Abstract Shrimp farming has a great ecological, economic, and social importance in northeastern Brazil. Although the conventional farming system is widely used, biofloc technology (BFT) system has been developed to reduce environmental impacts and optimizing the production. Thus,the present study evaluated the technical efficiency of production cycles of Litopenaeus vannamei in conventional and BFT systems.We analyzed 48 production cycles in the conventional system in 2013 and 2014 and 9 cycles in the BFT system in 2014 through data envelopment analysis (DEA). The inputs corresponded to the population density (post-larvae m-2), amount of feed (kg ha-1 cycle-1), labor (man ha-1) and power supply (HP ha-1), whereas the yield (kg ha-1 cycle-1) was considered the output. The results indicated four production cycles (7.0%) technically efficient, three in the conventional system and one in the BFT. By comparing the productive systems, there was significant difference in their mean scores of technical efficiency. There was a greater influence of the management inefficiency on the conventional system, while the production scale reduced the average scores of technical efficiency in the BFT system. These results may help to improve the development of sustainable L. vannamei farming in both systems by reducing waste and increasing profits.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652018000703705
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/0001-3765201820170953
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.90 n.4 2018
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess