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Efficiency comparison of the main Croatian and Hungarian animal husbandry sectors

The animal husbandry sectors play an important role both in Hungarian and Croatian agriculture. To our knowledge, no research has been done so far to determine and compare efficiency levels of different animal husbandry farms in these two countries. The objective of this research was to examine the technical efficiency indicators of dairy, beef, broiler, sheep and pig sectors in Hungary and Croatia using DEA VRS method. We used data from national FADN databases for the period 2014- 2017 for the calculations of indicators. The results of the research show us that from five main animal husbandry sectors, Hungarian farms score better in dairy and beef sector. Croatian farms achieve higher technical efficiency level in the sheep sector. In pig and broiler sectors farms from both countries achieve very similar technical efficiency indicators.

animal husbandry sectors ; technical efficiency ; DEA ; Croatia ; Hungary

For the purposes of this paper, data from national FADN databases for Croatia and Hungary were used. We thank the responsible institutions for getting access to anonymised individual data.