Technical efficiency and its determinants in the European Union agriculture.

Th e study concerns the measurement of the technical effi ciency of agriculture in the 27 European Union (EU) countries in 2010. Th e studies were conducted based on the result-oriented DEA method assuming variable advantages of scale. Moreover, in the study, the factors aff ecting technical effi ciency were identifi ed, and the econometric modelling of their impact was performed with the use of the Tobit model. Th e studies indicate that across the 27 EU Member States, the level of the technical effi ciency of agriculture is diverse, and the diff erence between the states with the highest and the lo- west effi ciencies is 40%. Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Malta were iden- tifi ed as the countries with the thoroughly technically effi cient agriculture. In turn, the least technically effi cient agriculture is observed for the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia and Slovakia. Taking into account the factors deter- mining the technical agriculture effi ciency, it should be noted that the stimulants have proven to be such factors as: the soil quality, the age of the head of the household and the surcharges for investments. In turn, the size of the farm appeared to be irrelevant from the viewpoint of the technical effi ciency of the agricultural sector.

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