Technical and Scale Efficiency of farms producing grapes for wine

climatechange and the subsequent requirements to comply with environmental standards, continuoustechnological change, need adapt it, adjust, remain competitive. The COVID-19 pandemic economic hardship it brought about, followed by current energy crisis,make imperative address issues of competitiveness efficiency farm units. Theseunfavorable developments particularly affect mountainous disadvantaged rural areassuch as Region Western Macedonia in Greece. Furthermore, decarbonizationprocess that this region is undergoing, leads a period uncertainty, especially relationto employment. cultivation vineyards wine production are dominant economicactivities Xinomavro being main grape for variety. grape-producing farms considered important whole supply chain. objective paper estimate technical scale wine-related agricultural firms Macedonia, applying DEA methodology. An output-oriented empirical model was applied estimation producing grapes wine.
 Keywords: efficiency, cultivation, wineries