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Productividad del sector ganadero bovino en Colombia durante los años 2000 a 2009
Autor
Rueda De Vivero, Rodrigo Andrés
Gomez Guarnizo, Juan David
Institución
Resumen
This paper aims to calculate the productivity of livestock sector specializing in bovine meat production in Colombia for the period 2000 and 2009. It contains a review of productivity theory and how it applies to the sector studied. It also defines a set of indicators such as the extraction rate, weight and age at slaughter, weight and performance of the slaughtered animal, carrying capacity and animal productivity in order to do the measurement. As these indicators are calculated for the case of Colombia, also are calculated for Argentina and Uruguay. These countries were selected for their leadership in the cattle sector, with the aim of benchmarking productivity. The results obtained show that Argentina is the most productive, followed by Uruguay and in the last position is Colombia. However, the only ones who have improvement in productivity levels are Argentina and Colombia, the latter being far from the others. The reasons to explain this situation are multiple, and in this paper are explained in detail. Finally, it presents a vision of FEDEGAN on how can be improved the productivity in the country, if they want to achieve the goals set at 2019.