<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>It has long been the subject of empirical researches to examine the technical efficiency on farm (micro) level. Two main methods are most often used in the empirical literature: the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based on linear programming, and the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977). The present study aimed to investigate the technical efficiency of farms involved in agricultural activities in Hungary using the DEA-method and the data from the Hungarian FADN database. The technical efficiency was examined based on legal forms, farm size categories and the type of farming between 2001 and 2013.</p></abstract>

It has long been the subject of empirical researches to examine the technical efficiency on farm (micro) level. Two main methods are most often used in the empirical literature: the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based on linear programming, and the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977). The present study aimed to investigate the technical efficiency of farms involved in agricultural activities in Hungary using the DEA-method and the data from the Hungarian FADN database. The technical efficiency was examined based on legal forms, farm size categories and the type of farming between 2001 and 2013.

Farm Structure And Efficiency In The Hungarian Agriculture

Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Károly Róbert College, Institute of Business Sciences, Gyöngyös, Hungary

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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It has long been the subject of empirical researches to examine the technical efficiency on farm (micro) level. Two main methods are most often used in the...

Farm Structure And Efficiency In The Hungarian Agriculture

Published Online: Dec 16, 2015

Page range: 51 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/vjbsd-2015-0012

Keywords
agriculture, DEA-method, FADN, technical efficiency

© 2015 Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Farm Structure And Efficiency In The Hungarian Agriculture

Published Online: Dec 16, 2015

Page range: 51 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/vjbsd-2015-0012

Keywordsagriculture, DEA-method, FADN, technical efficiency

© 2015 Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
agriculture, DEA-method, FADN, technical efficiency