Efektywność polskiego rolnictwa na tle pozostałych krajów Unii Europejskiej
EFFICIENCY OF POLISH AGRICULTURE IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES

Summary/Abstract: The article determines efficiency of agriculture in the EU Member States in2014 based on Data Envelopment Analysis method. The DEA model focused on minimizinginputs. The model features the following variables: 1 effect (value of agricultural production)and 4 inputs (arable area, number of people employed in agriculture, use of fertilizers, useof energy). It was found that among the 25 studied countries, 6 countries had efficientagriculture. The efficient agriculture group included the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece,the UK, Italy and Belgium. Based on the DEA method benchmarks have been defined forcountries with inefficient agriculture. On the basis of these benchmarks for inefficientagricultural sectors, it is possible to determine a combination of technologies that allow thesame results to be achieved with less input. The efficiency of agriculture in Poland faredpoorly compared to other EU Member States. The reason behind it might be structuralproblems, low labour and land productivity in the agricultural sector in Poland and theextensive nature of agricultural production.

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