Agricultural Economics, 2024 (vol. 70), issue 9
Environmental regulations or expected revenue: What plays a more important role in China’s green transition of agriculture?Original Paper
Yongwang Zhang, Minjuan Zhao
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):425-435 | DOI: 10.17221/142/2024-AGRICECON 
Policy constraints and market incentives have made it an important foundation for developing countries such as China to develop agricultural green transition policies. This study employed the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2022 and the three-dimensional framework of ‘institutions, technology, and marketisation’ to probe whether environmental regulation constraints or expected economic revenue incentives play a critical role in China’s current agriculture development. Whether the green transition of agriculture depends on environmental regulatory policy constraints and expected economic revenue incentives is related...
Land productivity in the EU in the context of financial support through direct subsidiesOriginal Paper
Barbara Kutkowska, Tomasz Szuk, Stanislaw Minta, Hanna Adamska
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):436-445 | DOI: 10.17221/51/2024-AGRICECON
The main research objective of this study is to present the dynamics of land productivity changes in EU agriculture in the years 2012–2020 and evaluate the influence of direct subsidies received by farmers on land productivity. The source data for 2012–2020 are secondary and come from Eurostat. The research results were prepared for the entire European Union (EU-28), and divided into ‘old’ countries (EU-15) and ‘new’ countries (EU-13). The results were developed using the method of assessing convergence (in terms of differences in land productivity in individual countries) using the coefficient of variation and the...
Technical efficiency and farm size in the context of sustainable agricultureOriginal Paper
Yang Fan, Wu Guoyong, Noman Riaz, Kamila Radlińska
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):446-456 | DOI: 10.17221/158/2024-AGRICECON
This article aims to highlight the importance of climate and environmental challenges for agricultural economics and policy. Empirical research based on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method determined the average technical efficiency and scale efficiency of farms in the European Union in total and in economic size classes in the period 2004–2020. The results indicate that agriculture is generally characterised by high technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Analysis by economic size classes of farms, defined by the standard sum of their agricultural output, shows that the relationship between the scale of production and technical efficiency...
The impact of efficiency on the profitability of large farms in the Visegrad FourCase Study
Zuzana Fuksová, David Mareš, Milan Křápek
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):457-464 | DOI: 10.17221/120/2024-AGRICECON
The issue of productivity and performance in agriculture is significant because it affects a country’s competitiveness, sustainability, and self-sufficiency in agricultural production and is reflected in European policy. This study aims to determine which country had the most efficient large farms compared to other V4 countries and whether efficiency in each country translates into the performance of large farms. The data were obtained from the EU FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) database from 2005 to 2019. These data were then evaluated using the statistical methods DEA: CCR-O (Data Envelopment Analysis: constant returns to scale), DEA:...