In 2022, index of physical volume of agricultural output in agricultural organizations, peasant (private) farms and household farms grew by 10.2% as compared to the previous year. In monetary terms growth was 14.8% due to rising prices on agricultural products (+4.2%, i.e. much lower as compared...

This study is a first attempt to clarify major trends and factors of changes in production and productivity in Post-Second World War Bulgarian agriculture. It incorporates an interdisciplinary approach and specifies crucial institutional, economic, organizational, technological etc. factors...

Panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Tanzania and Uganda were analyzed to investigate the impact of off-farm participation on agricultural production and farmers' welfare. Using strategies ranging from simple least squares to a dynamic...

The strategic goals of raising competitiveness, human resources development, employment, incomes and social integration along with strategic priorities as infrastructure, entrepreneurship encouragement, favorable business environment, balanced territorial development, etc. consider knowledge and...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been widely used in measuring agricultural production efficiency. The present paper is to investigate the technical, allocative and cost or economic efficiencies of rice farms in Bihar. The farm level data used in the analysis was taken from cost of...

The need to enhance food security while reducing poverty along with the growing threat imposed by climate change clearly reveal that it is imperative to accelerate agricultural productivity growth. This paper estimates micro-level production models to identify the major factors that have...

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect...

The issues related to proper assessments of the competitiveness of farming enterprises in general and of different type and locations has been among the most topical for academicians, agro-business managers, interest groups, administrators, politicians, international organizations, and the...

Exogenous shocks of market expansion and trade oriented economic reforms initiated during 1990's and combined after 2004-05 with price increase and higher public investment, accelerated aggregate output growth, enhanced resource productivity, and improved private investment in agriculture. The...

The Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship is characterised against others with a very high land price and intensity of use of resources from the Common Agricultural Policy programmes. To indicate the reasons for this situation, the assessment in this paper covered typical farms from the voivodeship...