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Research on China’s aquaculture efficiency evaluation and influencing factors with undesirable outputs

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Taking the aquaculture area, the number of farming boats and that of aquaculturist as input variables, the aquaculture production as desirable output variable and polluted economic loss as undesirable output variable, this paper conducts SBM model to evaluate the aquaculture efficiency based on the data of 16 aquaculture-developed provinces in China from 2004 to 2011. The results show the efficiency in China has not changed much in recent years with the efficiency values mainly between 0.39 and 0.53, and the efficiency of marine-aquaculture-dominated provinces is generally higher than that of freshwater-aquaculture-dominated ones. To analyze the difference under the efficiency, the panel Tobit model is used with education level factor, training factor, technology extension factor, technical level factor, scale factor and species factor as the efficiency influencing factors. The results show that technology extension factor and technical level factor have significant positive influence.

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    Jianyue Ji & Pingping Wang

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Ji, J., Wang, P. Research on China’s aquaculture efficiency evaluation and influencing factors with undesirable outputs. J. Ocean Univ. China 14, 569–574 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-015-2679-9

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