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Sirvi 3. Doktoritööd Märksõna "agricultural production" järgi

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    Evaluation of technical efficiency in farms and rural municipalities in Estonia using data envelopment analysis
    (Eesti Maaülikool, 2020) Luik-Lindsaar, Helis; Värnik, Rando; Viira, Ants-Hannes; Sipiläinen, Timo (opponent)
    Due to tight competition, agricultural enterprises aim towards high quality and low unit costs in their production, whilst opting for environmentally friendly production practices. Knowledge, skills, input quality, and production scale therefore play an equally important role in reaching efficiency. Inefficient resource use is problematic both at the level of a single enterprise and the entire sector. If resources are not used efficiently, the enterprise suffers from production losses or fails to sell its produced output due to its low quality, leading to decreased sales revenue and profit. To manage resources better, it is important to first assess the efficiency of agricultural producers and the factors that are related to efficiency or help predict it. This study assessed the technical efficiency of milk producers and cereal and oil crop growers. The conclusion of the study was that milk production efficiency could be increased by paying more attention to the herd's genetic selection and hygiene, and by aiming for a lower age at first calving. These factors help increase the cow’s lifetime milk yield per day, which is a key factor contributing towards efficiency. The question of efficient resource use is even more acute when public resources are used. Local municipalities get half of their revenue from personal income tax and must therefore offer taxpayers high quality services and infrastructure in return. The study assessed the efficiency of rural municipalities and the factors related to it. It was deduced that larger municipalities are more efficient and that efficient municipalities are characterised by a higher share of residents with higher education. It was also observed that less efficient municipalities had a higher rate of state support. Consequently, more efficient means of reducing inefficiency must be implemented in these municipalities in order to hinder further increase of inequality between municipalities, especially to the disadvantage of rural municipalities.