WILL ROMANIAN CROP FARMS BE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY BY LOW-INPUT FARMING?

Cecilia Alexandri (), Corina Saman, Bianca Pauna and Lucian Luca
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Cecilia Alexandri: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Corina Saman: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Lucian Luca: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2022, vol. 19, issue 2, 155-164

Abstract: We use farm-level panel data from FADN Romania for three years (2016–2018) and estimate Cobb-Douglas production function to document the effect of low-input farming on production. We find that there are substantial differences in measuring values for capital, crop protection and fertilizers in the database that pose problems in estimating a uniform function for farms of all sizes and also for comparing the results. The estimations show the effect of fertilizers is larger for very small farms and of similar magnitude for the other farms. However, the estimator of the impact of reducing the use of crop protection materials is larger for farms with total utilized area larger than 10 hectares.

Keywords: productivity; European Green Deal; crop farms; Romania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O47 Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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