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Technical and economic efficiency analysis on Italian smallholder family farms using Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset

Galluzzo, Nicola (2015): Technical and economic efficiency analysis on Italian smallholder family farms using Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset. Studies in Agricultural Economics, 117 (1). pp. 35-42. ISSN 2063-0476

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Abstract

More than 90 per cent of Italian farms have a usable agricultural area of less than 9 ha, even if over time there has been a growth of the average agricultural area per farm as a consequence of rural out-migration. This paper compares, using a nonparametric model, the technical efficiency of smallholder family (diretto coltivatrice), co-operative and limited company farms during the period 2000-2011. The diretto coltivatrice farms and the co-operative farms had higher levels of scale efficiency than the limited company farms, with a scale efficiency value equal to 100 per cent in ten years out of twelve. The average technical efficiency of diretto coltivatrice farms was higher than those of co-operative and limited company farms. The second part of the quantitative analysis used the self-organising maps (SOM) proposed by Kohonen. The SOMs indicated that the size of the agricultural area has a direct impact on the technical efficiency of farms and on their level of income.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: smallholder family farms, co-operative farms, limited company farms, Kohonen’s maps, allocative efficiency
Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics – Environmental and Ecological Economics
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics – Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q00 - General
Depositing User: István Ady
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2017 09:59
Last Modified: 23 Jun 2017 09:29
URI: http://repo.aki.gov.hu/id/eprint/2111

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