Evaluating economic and technical efficiency of dairy farms in Gorgan County

This research work was conducted to investigate technical and economic efficiency of dairy farms of Gorgan County. Data were collected using 33 questionaires and both parametric and non-parametric methods were applied simultaneously. The overall descriptive statistics results showed that the farms have most variation in the total area and cattle size and most similarity in manager’s age and daily milk production records. The results of parametric method showed that average technical and economical efficiency were equal to 75 and 72, respectively and it is possible to increase them up to 22 and 24 respectively. Also, the results of non-parametric method showed that average technical and economical efficiency were equal to 76 and 55 respectively and it is possible to increase them up to 24 and 45 respectively.