Technological Heterogeneity in Pig Farming: A Metafrontier Approach—Perspectives from Hungary and Poland

Despite remaining the most important type of animal production, pig production in Poland and Hungary declined after their accession to European Union (EU) 2004. This paper investigated evolution technical efficiency pork industry both countries. We applied stochastic frontier analysis, which takes into account heterogeneity environment functions countries—true random effects, a metafrontier model. employed farm-level data from Farm Accountancy Data Network sample during period 2004–2015. Results illustrate differences function countries technological decline throughout analysis. Furthermore, farms were more technologically developed as well less efficient relation country frontier; however, higher level resulted generally greater metafrontier. Our results suggest that different policy measures would be effective under