Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context
This study presents a comparison of the performance and the ranking of pork producers in 16 countries over the period 2012–2017. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to make the ranking and identify the best practices among the involved countries (“peers”). For the DEA analysis, the output is agg...
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| author | Jaroslav Havlíček Ludmila Dömeová Luboš Smutka Helena Řezbová Lucie Severová Tomáš Šubrt Karel Šrédl Roman Svoboda |
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| description | This study presents a comparison of the performance and the ranking of pork producers in 16 countries over the period 2012–2017. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to make the ranking and identify the best practices among the involved countries (“peers”). For the DEA analysis, the output is aggregated into the category Carcass meat production in sow/year/kg, the inputs into Feed costs, Other variable costs, Labor costs, Depreciation and finance costs. In the first round of evaluation, only Brazil, the USA and The Netherlands were designated as peers. Significant differences between the highest-ranking values (1) and the lowest-ranking values (0.709) showed greater differences between European and non-European pork manufacturers. To get more European countries among the peers, non-European countries the USA and Brazil were excluded from the second round of evaluation. The second round of evaluation indicated that Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain are efficient producers with regard to the given inputs. The ratings of Germany, Italy and France are close to one (with differences of less than 4%); therefore, these countries can also be classified as efficient units. The identification of peers among selected EU producers represents “best practices” in the field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8afdef52f8ef40bf8b7c2dc054ba697f2023-11-20T23:14:50ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722020-12-01101259710.3390/agriculture10120597Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International ContextJaroslav Havlíček0Ludmila Dömeová1Luboš Smutka2Helena Řezbová3Lucie Severová4Tomáš Šubrt5Karel Šrédl6Roman Svoboda7Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Trade and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Economic Theories, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Economic Theories, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicDepartment of Economic Theories, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech RepublicThis study presents a comparison of the performance and the ranking of pork producers in 16 countries over the period 2012–2017. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to make the ranking and identify the best practices among the involved countries (“peers”). For the DEA analysis, the output is aggregated into the category Carcass meat production in sow/year/kg, the inputs into Feed costs, Other variable costs, Labor costs, Depreciation and finance costs. In the first round of evaluation, only Brazil, the USA and The Netherlands were designated as peers. Significant differences between the highest-ranking values (1) and the lowest-ranking values (0.709) showed greater differences between European and non-European pork manufacturers. To get more European countries among the peers, non-European countries the USA and Brazil were excluded from the second round of evaluation. The second round of evaluation indicated that Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain are efficient producers with regard to the given inputs. The ratings of Germany, Italy and France are close to one (with differences of less than 4%); therefore, these countries can also be classified as efficient units. The identification of peers among selected EU producers represents “best practices” in the field.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/10/12/597data envelopment analysisdecision-making unitpig productionpork meat productionrankingpeer |
| spellingShingle | Jaroslav Havlíček Ludmila Dömeová Luboš Smutka Helena Řezbová Lucie Severová Tomáš Šubrt Karel Šrédl Roman Svoboda Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context Agriculture data envelopment analysis decision-making unit pig production pork meat production ranking peer |
| title | Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context |
| title_full | Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context |
| title_fullStr | Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context |
| title_short | Efficiency of Pig Production in the Czech Republic and in an International Context |
| title_sort | efficiency of pig production in the czech republic and in an international context |
| topic | data envelopment analysis decision-making unit pig production pork meat production ranking peer |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/10/12/597 |
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