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Modeling sequential production: the migratory beekeeper case
Luciano PilatiRoberto DarisMario PrestamburgoFilippo Sgroisubject
Strategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementSettore SECS-S/06 -Metodi Mat. dell'Economia e d. Scienze Attuariali e Finanz.Bio-economic modelManagement Information SystemSettore AGR/01 - Economia Ed Estimo RuraleBio-economic model Foraging sitesPrice responseBio-economic model Foraging sites Migratory beekeeper Price response Sequential productionSequential productionForaging siteBusiness and International ManagementMigratory beekeeperdescription
This paper formalizes a bio-economic model of migratory beekeeping activities, during the annual production cycle, so as to discern the optimal sequence of foraging sites for migratory beekeepers; it then proceeds to empirically verify the model via a case study. The model assumes that the apiary farm produces three marketable outputs under conditions of certainty with disjunctive resources at the sites. In particular, honey, commercial pollination services and nucleus colonies are produced sequentially at foraging sites throughout the year. The model determines a migratory beekeeperâs revenues, variable costs, gross income from each sequence of foraging sites under the constraint that the total time allocated to the foraging sites be less than or equal to the annual production cycle duration. The bio-economic model allows sequential choices and jointness in foraging sites to be tested, so as to ascertain whether the various stages in the sequential production process are independent of each other. Jointness in foraging sites can arise with regard to variable costs, revenues or both simultaneously.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 |