IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/comchp/978-3-319-06635-6_18.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Assessing the Evolution of Technical Efficiency of Agriculture in EU Countries: Is There a Role for the Agenda 2000?

In: Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy

Author

Listed:
  • G. Vlontzos

    (University of Thessaly)

  • S. Niavis

    (University of Thessaly)

Abstract

One of the major goals of the Agenda 2000 for EU agriculture was to increase its market orientation and improve the competitiveness level of the primary sector of member states. In order to evaluate if this goal has been reached, both Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models have been applied. This research focuses on the 2003–2011 period. Inputs include agricultural land, labour and fixed capital consumption, and output is the total agricultural output of each country. Both models prove that there is an increasing trend on mean efficiency levels of the primary sector of member states of the EU. The application of the Mann-Whitney U-test prove that eastern European countries, which recently became EU members, are significantly less efficient, compared with the older member states. This finding applies for both efficiency measurement methodologies, strengthening in this way the validity of the results.

Suggested Citation

  • G. Vlontzos & S. Niavis, 2014. "Assessing the Evolution of Technical Efficiency of Agriculture in EU Countries: Is There a Role for the Agenda 2000?," Cooperative Management, in: Constantin Zopounidis & Nikos Kalogeras & Konstadinos Mattas & Gert Dijk & George Baourakis (ed.), Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 339-351, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:comchp:978-3-319-06635-6_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6_18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Spyros Niavis & Nikos Tamvakis & Basil Manos & George Vlontzos, 2018. "Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Extensive Olive Oil Farmers: The Case of Pelion Peninsula in Greece," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-13, February.
    2. Thomas Bournaris & George Vlontzos & Christina Moulogianni, 2019. "Efficiency of Vegetables Produced in Glasshouses: The Impact of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in Land Management Decision Making," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(1), pages 1-11, January.
    3. Spyros Niavis & George Vlontzos, 2019. "Seeking for Convergence in the Agricultural Sector Performance under the Changes of Uruguay Round and 1992 CAP Reform," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(15), pages 1-13, July.
    4. George Vlontzos & Spyros Niavis & Panos Pardalos, 2017. "Testing for Environmental Kuznets Curve in the EU Agricultural Sector through an Eco-(in)Efficiency Index," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-15, December.
    5. Danilo Đokić & Tihomir Novaković & Dragana Tekić & Bojan Matkovski & Stanislav Zekić & Dragan Milić, 2022. "Technical Efficiency of Agriculture in the European Union and Western Balkans: SFA Method," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-18, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:comchp:978-3-319-06635-6_18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.