The impact of crop rotation and land fragmentation on farm productivity in Albania

Miroslava Rajcaniova, Pavel Ciaian, Fatmir Guri, Edvin Zhllima and Edmira Shahu ()

No 275893, 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: We estimate the impact of land fragmentation and crop rotation on farm productivity in rural Albania. We employ stochastic production frontier estimation approach and Tobit regression on survey data collected among farm households in Albania in 2013. Our estimates suggest that land fragmentation improves farm efficiency likely because it allows a better use of household labour during the production seasons. Our estimates also suggest that crop rotation increases farm efficiency. However, the land fragmentation dominates the crop rotation in impacting farm efficiency.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2018-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.275893

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