Kelet-közép-európai növénytermesztő gazdaságok hatékonyságvizsgálata

The comparison of the Visegrad countries in various economic aspects goes back many years. In our study, the characteristics of agriculture and, within this, arable production in certain Central and Eastern European countries were included in our investigations. The results of benchmarking-type studies help to establish various rankings, thereby providing additional opportunities for a country to develop it even further if it is developed in a given area, thereby playing a leading role in the region. The results of the studies also contribute to the fact that if a country's given economic indicators are possibly below average, greater emphasis should be placed on strengthening and improving them. Agriculture, and within this, arable crop production, has undergone continuous technical and technological development in recent decades, which - of course, also depending on other factors - has helped to increase the efficiency of the sector. The production structure, human resources, assets, and capital goods are all related to output and profit production, and in our case we tried to explore these relationships using descriptive statistical methods. Our results, based on nine-year time series data, pointed out the differences in human resources and equipment in crop-growing farms between countries. During the analysis, we were also able to evaluate the efficiency of agricultural activity with the combinations of different output-input factors. The results were influenced by the agricultural economic policy measures of the individual countries following the change of regime, as well as the production tradition preceding it and the market-oriented relations of the past three decades. During our studies, we found that the performance and efficiency indicators of Czech and Slovak farms with larger average farm sizes in most cases represent more favorable values compared to the other countries examined. The efficiency of the Polish and Romanian economies in terms of labor input lags behind other countries, but this indicator is on the rise in all countries. The value of the endowment of assets per economy is also increasing in all countries studied.