<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The study assesses the impact of the economic size of farms on the efficiency of their material and energy expenditure, based on 679 farms from the Lubelskie Voivodeship. The analysis was made for the years 2013-2015 and the farms were divided into six economic size classes. 5 indexes for the efficiency of material, energy and material-energy expenditures were calculated for all farms. The aim of the work was to select a group of farms with the highest efficiency of energy and material expenditure. It was found that economically small farms managed this expenditure most effectively, as evidenced by the highest values of 4 out of 5 analyzed indexes. Very small and medium-small farms demonstrated the highest efficiency of material expenditure. In contrast, energy expenditure was most efficiently used by medium-small farms. The farms that were the largest economically were characterized by the highest efficiency index of material and energy expenditure, calculated as the ratio of total production to the expenditure.</p></abstract>

The study assesses the impact of the economic size of farms on the efficiency of their material and energy expenditure, based on 679 farms from the Lubelskie Voivodeship. The analysis was made for the years 2013-2015 and the farms were divided into six economic size classes. 5 indexes for the efficiency of material, energy and material-energy expenditures were calculated for all farms. The aim of the work was to select a group of farms with the highest efficiency of energy and material expenditure. It was found that economically small farms managed this expenditure most effectively, as evidenced by the highest values of 4 out of 5 analyzed indexes. Very small and medium-small farms demonstrated the highest efficiency of material expenditure. In contrast, energy expenditure was most efficiently used by medium-small farms. The farms that were the largest economically were characterized by the highest efficiency index of material and energy expenditure, calculated as the ratio of total production to the expenditure.

The Impact of Economic Size of Farms on their Material and Energy Expenditure

Production in agriculture Department, Agricultural Research Centre of Wallonia

Sustainability, Systems and Prospectives Department, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre

Department of Machinery Exploitation and Management of Production Processes

Agricultural Engineering

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The study assesses the impact of the economic size of farms on the efficiency of their material and energy expenditure, based on 679 farms from the Lubelskie...

The Impact of Economic Size of Farms on their Material and Energy Expenditure

Publié en ligne: 30 juin 2020

Pages: 29 - 38

Reçu: 01 mai 2020

Accepté: 01 juin 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2020-0014

Mots clés
family farms, farming efficiency, expenditure efficiency

© 2020 Kamil Depo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Impact of Economic Size of Farms on their Material and Energy Expenditure

Publié en ligne: 30 juin 2020

Pages: 29 - 38

Reçu: 01 mai 2020

Accepté: 01 juin 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2020-0014

Mots clésfamily farms, farming efficiency, expenditure efficiency

© 2020 Kamil Depo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
family farms, farming efficiency, expenditure efficiency