The technical efficiency of young farmers in the Czech Republic

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The technical efficiency of young farmers in the Czech Republic
Original language description
The European Commission assumes that young managers bring innovations to the agricultural holdings and achieve better profitability, and therefore it supports their businesses by the subsidies. As the resources of the finances are public, it must be examined whether the aid is justified. Hence, the aim of the paper is to assess the technical efficiency of the young farmers and compare it to the technical efficiency of the holdings lead by “non-young” farmers. Evaluated sample includes 82 observations for young farmers and 444 for others in the years 2007–2012. A Stochastic Frontier Analysis is used to estimate the production function in Cobb-Douglas form and to calculate the technical efficiency using Jondrow et al. (1982) method. Young farmers are found to be more efficient (from 67.6%) than other farmers (59.1%). The differences between the groups of farmers were tested using non-parametric Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The results show that young and other farmers do not statistically significantly differ in terms of the technical efficiency. Those findings do not support the assumptions on which the aid for which young farmers is provided. However, further research is needed in the area of innovation adoption by the farmers.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
The 9th International Days of Statistics and Economics - Conference Proceedings
ISBN
978-80-87990-06-3
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1262-1269
Publisher name
Libuše Macáková, MELANDRIUM
Place of publication
Praha
Event location
Praha
Event date
Sep 10, 2015
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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