The aim of the article is to evaluate production efficiency and its determinants of specialised dairy farming among the EU regions. In the most of European regions, there is a relatively high significance of small specialised farms including dairy farms. The DEAVRS method (data envelopment analysis with variable returns to scale) reveals efficient and inefficient regions including the scale eff...

Vegetable production constitutes an important sub-sector of the agricultural economy of KwaZulu-Natal. Most vegetables are cultivated in mixed-cropping types of farming systems. The technical efficiency of vegetable based cropping systems was estimated in order to identify the potential increase in production without incurring additional costs. The factors affecting technical efficiency and con...

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Recent research on the impact of institutions su¤ers from historical, theoretical, and methodological problems. The historical issue is whether the initially poorer countries became wealthier, as Acemoglou, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) would have us believe. The theoretical question is whether the institutions that should matter are those that protect property rights or those that coordindate i...

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An increase in productivity agriculture is achieved thanks to technological progress and changing the structure of production factors into more economically effective ones. The observed directions changes include: intensification an capital-labour ratio. aim presented research determine whether level efficiency vegetable farms depends on involved farm. In this study, data from Polish FADN for 2...

Farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. Yet, they lack adequate and needed information. Hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. Primary data were collected to elicit infor...

AGR/CA/APM(2001)24/FINAL 2 Foreword Governments in OECD countries intervene in agriculture with a view to achieving a wide range of economic and social objectives, in particular the improvement of farm household incomes. This study investigates how efficient some of the most commonly used policy interventions — referred to as the transfer efficiency of support measures with respect to income — ...