Technical and scale efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland: does specialization matter?

Latruffe, Laure; Balcombe, Kelvin; Davidova, Sophia; Zawalińska, Katarzyna

doi:10.1111/j.1574-0862.2005.00322.x

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“…Such dependence, although to a lesser degree, is also found for farms from the "new" EU regions. This observation corresponds with a finding reported in the study by Latruffe et al (2005), who presented among other things the investigations on the efficiency of crop farms in Poland. however, the direct consistency of these remarks is limited, since in the above mentioned publication, farms represented only Polish agriculture, the size of farms was expressed by the cropped area and the number of size intervals was bigger, and they included first of all smaller farms, which in the classification according to the ESU from Table 3 would be classified to the first three categories.…”

Section: Technical Pure Technical and Scale Efficiencysupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Values determined here may hardly be compared with those recorded by other authors, but e.g. Latruffe et al (2005) in their investigations conducted in 1996 and 2000 reported that in the Polish field crop farms, the excessive capital consumption in both years was around 10%, while that of land -approx. 4%, whereas in the livestock farms, the excessive capital consumption was as high as 21% in 1996 and only 4% in 2000.…”

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confidence: 37%

“…Poland ( a study by Latruffe et al (2005) it is not surprising, since small and very small farms in terms of their area predominate in Polish agriculture. We need to mention here remarks presented in the study by Lund (1983) concerning problems with the identification of a commonly acceptable measure of the farm size and the development of their clear-cut classification.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Productivity and efficiency of large and small field crop farms and mixed farms of the old and new EU regions

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Kala²,

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2012

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Abstract:The main aim of the paper is to consider the question whether a higher specialization and a bigger economic size class of farms determine a higher technical efficiency at the same scale for the farms from the new and old countries of the EU. This study is based on the data contained in the Farm Accounting Data network and covers the first four years following the extension of the European Union in 2004. The adopted units comprised average farms representing 80 regions belonging to eleven countries of the EU-15 and four new EU member states. The estimation of technical efficiency was conducted using the data envelopment analysis, separately for each of the two types of farms taking into account their economic size. The main findings indicate that the highest efficiency is achieved by the biggest farms, but those from the regions belonging to the new EU members at the same time had a low efficiency of scale, while those belonging to the countries of the EU-15 were operating at a scale close to the optimal. Moreover, it is confirmed that a longer period of farming under relatively stable conditions promotes a higher efficiency independently of the type of farm production. on the other hand, contrary to the relatively common opinion that a higher specialization promotes a higher efficiency, it was found that field crop farms in average are less efficient than mixed farms, although the difference between efficiencies decreases with an increase of their economic size.

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“…The size of capital land, financial subsidies allocated by the European Union to small farms as well as the level of skills and education of farmers have acted directly on the level of technical and economic efficiency in several European agrarian enterprises (Latruffe et al, 2005; Bojnec and Latruffe, 2013; Manevska-Tasevska, 2013; Galluzzo, 2013). Findings in transition economies in new comer member states of the European Union located in East of Europe, such as Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, have stressed as family farms have had the highest levels of efficiency, which is directly correlated and influenced by other variables such as the gender of farmers, the human capital and by the agricultural specialization of farms (Mathijs and Vranken, 2001).…”

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Medium Term Analysis of Technical and Allocative Efficiency in Romanian Farms Using FADN Dataset

Galluzzo¹

2017

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The Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) is an annual survey established by the European Union in order to estimate the economic impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on farmers. Lots of scholars have investigated the technical, economical and allocative efficiency using a non-parametric approach such as the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Romanian farms belonging to the Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset have highlighted modest levels of technical efficiency compared to the average European value investigated by other authors. The purpose of this study was to assess using the DEA approach technical, economic and allocative efficiency in Romanian farms belonging to the FADN dataset from 2007 to 2012. Findings have pointed out an increase of technical efficiency compared to previous studies carried out in transition economies such as Poland, Slovenia and Bulgaria, as a consequence of an intense generational turn over in Romanian characterized by a younger high skill and qualified farmers' generation. Poor land capital, in terms of utilized agricultural areas, and a low level of investments in new technologies, were the main downsides in Romanian farms; hence, the National Rural Development Plan should improve financial subsides in order to get better modest agrarian plots in farms scattered in the Romanian rural space.

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“…Several studies have analyzed farm productivity and efficiency in the cEEcs (i.e. Mathijs and Swinnen 2001;Mathijs and Vranken 2001;Brümmer et al 2002;gorton and Davidova 2004;Latruffe et al 2005Latruffe et al , 2008, but an analysis of the Baltic countries is still rare (Vasiliev et al 2008;Luik et al 2009). The previous studies mainly cover the period prior to the accession to the European Union (EU).…”

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Productivity of Estonian dairy farms decline after the accession to the European Union

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Suuster²,

Luik³

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Abstract:The aim of the study was to analyze the productivity change of Estonian dairy farms before and after the accession to the European Union. The Malmquist productivity index was measured and separated into the technical and efficiency change using the data envelopment analysis for the pre-accession period (years 2001-2003) and the post-accession period (2004)(2005)(2006). Second-stage regression was applied to estimate the possible variables determining the productivity and efficiency change. Productivity growth of Estonian dairy farms was negative for both observed periods; the mean annual growth rate of the Malmquist productivity index was -0.7% in 2001-2003 and -2.6% in 2004-2006. The share of farms with declining productivity increased from 36% to 50% after the accession to the EU and is induced mainly by a significant deterioration in the efficiency change. remarkable changes in the line-up of most efficient dairy farms occurred between 2000 and 2006, producers with greater initial efficiency have experienced significant regress, with efficiency score decreasing from 0.842 in 2000 to 0.608 in 2006 and the new front-runners, forming the efficiency frontier, have emerged. capitalization was positively related with the cumulative technical change. nevertheless, increasing investments and assets have not affected efficiency change and investments have often not been harnessed in the best possible way.

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Technical and scale efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland: does specialization matter?

Cited by 153 publications

References 22 publications

Productivity and efficiency of large and small field crop farms and mixed farms of the old and new EU regions

Productivity and efficiency of large and small field crop farms and mixed farms of the old and new EU regions

Medium Term Analysis of Technical and Allocative Efficiency in Romanian Farms Using FADN Dataset

Productivity of Estonian dairy farms decline after the accession to the European Union

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