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Scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Slovakia

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  • P. Bielik

    (Slovak University of Agricultur, Nitra, Slovak Republic)

  • M. Rajčániová

    (Slovak University of Agricultur, Nitra, Slovak Republic)

Abstract

The scale efficiency enables to measure technical relationship between farm size and efficient land using as a basic production factor according to its different allocation. The research has been done on a selected sample of agricultural enterprises in the Slovak Republic. A non-parametric data envelopment analysis approach has allowed investigating the differences in efficiency among various size groups of 110 agricultural enterprises. The research has proved that about 10 per cent of the analysed farms were operating during the analysed period at the optimal scale, 77 per cent at the above optimal scale and 13 per cent of the farms could increase the efficiency by increasing their acreage of agricultural land.

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  • P. Bielik & M. Rajčániová, 2004. "Scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Slovakia," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 50(8), pages 331-335.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:50:y:2004:i:8:id:5211-agricecon
    DOI: 10.17221/5211-AGRICECON
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    2. Rudra Bahadur SHRESTHA & Wen-Chi HUANG & Shriniwas GAUTAM & Thomas Gordon JOHNSON, 2016. "Efficiency of small scale vegetable farms: policy implications for the rural poverty reduction in Nepal," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 62(4), pages 181-195.
    3. Peter BIELIK & Daniela HUPKOVÁ & Matúš VADOVIČ & Natália TURČEKOVÁ, 2010. "The returns to scale analysis in the basic industry enterprises in the Slovak Republic," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 56(8), pages 359-367.
    4. Kristína KOČIŠOVÁ, 2015. "Application of the DEA on the measurement of efficiency in the EU countries," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 61(2), pages 51-62.
    5. Nicola GALLUZZO, 2016. "An analysis of the efficiency in a sample of small Italian farms part of the FADN dataset," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 62(2), pages 62-70.
    6. Galluzzo Nicola, 2018. "A Non-Parametric Analysis of Technical Efficiency in Bulgarian Farms Using the Fadn Dataset," European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 10(1), pages 58-73, March.

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