The technical efficiency of young farmers in the Czech Republic

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The technical efficiency of young farmers in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The technical efficiency of young farmers in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

GA - Zemědělská ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

The 9th International Days of Statistics and Economics - Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-80-87990-06-3

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

1262-1269

Název nakladatele

Libuše Macáková, MELANDRIUM

Místo vydání

Praha

Místo konání akce

Praha

Datum konání akce

10. 9. 2015

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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