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T1 Energetic and Monetary Analysis of Efficiency in Family-Owned Dairy Goat Production Systems in Andalusia (Southern Spain)
A1 Mena, Yolanda
A1 Morales-Jerrett, Eduardo
A1 Soler-Montiel, Marta
A1 Pérez Neira, David
A1 Mancilla-Leytón, Juan Manuel
A2 Economia Aplicada
K1 Ecología. Medio ambiente
K1 Economía
K1 Caprine
K1 Eco-efficiency
K1 Energy metabolism
K1 Feed management
K1 LCA
AB [EN] The family-owned dairy goat sector in Andalusia presents great diversity. Taking into account the particularities of their economic strategies, which are focused on generating net value added and a stable long-term remuneration for family labor, this work aims to expand the scarce existing knowledge on the energetic and economic profiles of the different caprine management systems in a context of climate and energy crisis. For this purpose, twenty-one farms, representative of the four typologies of the Andalusian dairy goat system, were monitored for one year: pastoral systems, grazing systems with high feed supply, indoor systems with associated crops, and indoor systems without associated crops. Technical-economic information was obtained that allowed the calculation of energy and economic indicators. In terms of socialized output, the differences found were due to the energy derived from milk sales, which was clearly lower in pastoral systems. The higher proportion of energy output obtained from manure with respect to edible products (milk and meat) highlights the importance of the former in energetic terms. High values for external inputs are found in the intensive group (111.22 GJ LSU−1), while the lowest results correspond to the pastoral group (36.96 GJ LSU−1). The main external input is the energy proceeding from purchased feed, which accounts for over 79% of the total external energy input in all four groups. The highest energy efficiency corresponds to the pastoral group, which is also the most efficient one in the use of non-renewable energy to produce milk and meat. Additionally, the level of eco-efficiency is higher in pastoral systems. Common Agricultural Policy funds contribute to increasing the remuneration of family work in pastoral systems, assimilating it to the rest of the systems. Therefore, intensification does not imply an absolute monetary advantage in all cases, while extensification can be remunerative for family-owned dairy farming
PB MDPI
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18028
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18028
NO Mena, Y., Morales-Jerrett, E., Soler-Montiel, M., Pérez-Neira, D., y Mancilla-Leytón, J. M. (2023). Energetic and Monetary Analysis of Efficiency in Family-Owned Dairy Goat Production Systems in Andalusia (Southern Spain). Animals, 14(1), 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14010104
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 21-jun-2024