Search Results - subject:"Farm technical efficiency"

Comparative Analysis of Technical Efficiency in European Agriculture

Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan; Ferto, Imre; Latruffe, Laure; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Technical efficiency has long been analysed as a measure of farm performance, however most studies are restricted to a single country case. This paper presents a comparative analysis of field crop and dairy farm performance across eight EU countries, including two New Member States (NMS),...

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Parametric farm performance and efficiency methodology: Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 113 (2011) 1

There is a continuously growing literature on the agricultural transformation in Central and Eastern European countries (see some surveys in Brooks and Nash 2002; Rozelle and Swinnen 2004). The research has focused on various aspects of transition, including land reform, farm restructuring, price...

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Rainfall and Farm Efficiency Measurement for Broadacre Agriculture in South-Western Australia

Henderson, Benjamin B.; Kingwell, Ross S. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 13 (2005)

Few studies of farm technical efficiency consider differences in the physical environments of the farms. This study … technical efficiency (TE). Applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to a sample of broadacre farms, TE measures unconfounded by … examines rain-fed broadacre agriculture and shows how neglect of rainfall differences between farms affects measures of farm …

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