Technical efficiency of starting versus established agricultural holdings
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.151" target="_blank" >10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.151</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Technical efficiency of starting versus established agricultural holdings
Original language description
Setting up of young farmers’ businesses is supported by agricultural policy, but it is suggested supporting starting farmers regardless the age because all of them face similar problems. The aim of the paper is to examine whether there are differences in technical efficiency between “new” and well-established farms. It is supposed that starting farmers are at the beginning less technically efficient and their support is justified.innovation. We considered farms established in 2013–2017 (82 observations) as starting, others were founded in 1995–2012 (2 099 observations). Stochastic frontier analysis was chosen to model the Cobb-Douglas production function. Production (sales) was explained by the consumption of material and energy, long-term assets and land. True fixed-effects model with half normal distribution of inefficiency term was used to calculate the technical efficiency. Differences between groups of farms were tested by Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Average technical efficiency was 85.27%, while established farms were efficient from 85.63% and starting farms from 76.14%. Test revealed that despite that starting farms seem less efficient, there were no statistically significant differences found. Support for starting farmers cannot be clearly justified by lower efficiency of new farmers, but by other issues that are targeted by agricultural policy.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
International Days of Statistics and Economics
ISBN
978-80-87990-18-6
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1508–1517
Publisher name
Vysoká škola ekonomická Praha
Place of publication
Praha
Event location
Praha
Event date
Sep 5, 2019
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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