Management of an Agricultural Company

Objectives

1. The model concept

2. The multi objective models

3. The efficiency models

4. To apply these models to agriculture

5. To solve this models with informatics packages

Program

Models. Main concepts

Mulktiriteria decision analysis;

Multicriteria decision analysis tree.

Multiobjetive Programming.

1. Efficient solution methods:

Constrains Methods

Weight Methods

NISE Methods

2. Ideal solutions Methods

Compromise Methods

Interactive Methods

3. Goal programming

4. Multiutility function

5. Case-studies- Azorean agriculture

Efficiency models

Efficiency methods

DEA – “Data Envelopment Analysis”.

Concepts and case studies

Análise paramétrica.

“Stochastic Frontier Analysis”

Concepts and case studies.

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures and exercises (classrom and homework to assessment for final grade).

Bibliography

Marta-Costa, A. (2008). A Tomada da Decisão no Planeamento da Exploração Agrária no Contexto da Sustentabilidade: o caso da Produção de Carne Bovina Maronesa, Dissertação de doutoramento, vol. I, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.

Romero, C. (1993). Teoría de la Decisión Multicriterio: Conceptos, Técnicas y Aplicaciones, Alianza Universidad Textos, Madrid.

Romero, C., T. Rehman (1989). Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions, Development in Agricultural Economics, 5, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Silva, E. (2001). Análisis de la Eficiencia Económica de las Explotaciones Agroganaderas de las Azores (Portugal), Tesis Doctoral, Universidad de Córdoba.

Coelli, T. (1996). A Guide to DEAP, Version 2.1. A Data Envelopment Analysis, CEPA Working Paper, 96/08. Coelli, T. (1996). A guide to FRONTIER Version 4.1.: A Computer Program for Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Estimation, CEPA Working Paper, 96/07. http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqtcoell/frontier.htm.