Economic Effectiveness of Specialized Households of Project of Cattle Feeding Based on Crop Residues

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10.2991/icmeit-17.2017.66How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cattle feeding based on crop residues (CFCR), Economic effectiveness; Opportunity costs; Model.

Abstract

The small-scale specialized households are the main body of the project of cattle feeding based on crop residues (CFCR), they are accounting for more than 90%. However, the numbers is quickly declined in recent years for the poor economic effectiveness of specialized households. This paper explains why with the following research. The calculation method of the economic effectiveness of specialized households of CFCR is given based on the analysis of all the inputs and outputs, with the special indicator of profit-oriented of one cattle monthly, and the profits of the specialized households are measured by the opportunity costs of going out to work. A micro-level study is carried out in a typical county of center China to assess the above theory research.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenchao Cai
AU  - Xueying Guo
AU  - Yufeng Sun
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Economic Effectiveness of Specialized Households of Project of Cattle Feeding Based on Crop Residues
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering and Information Technology (ICMEIT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 336
EP  - 342
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmeit-17.2017.66
DO  - 10.2991/icmeit-17.2017.66
ID  - Cai2017/05
ER  -