“…Despite its importance and long-term lively discussions, there is still no consensus on: what is the competitiveness of farming enterprises, how to measure the competitiveness of different organizations in agriculture, what is the absolute and comparative competitiveness of different types of farms, which are critical factors for increasing the competitiveness, etc. Numerous studies have emerged in recent years on various aspects of the competitiveness of farms of different sizes [1][2][3][4][5], in selected countries [1,[5][6][7][8][9], subsectors [1,4,6,[10][11][12][13], farming systems, such as organic, vertically integrated, greenhouse [2,5,11], regions [8] and chain producers [4], comparative studies in different EU countries [9,10,13], etc. To date, however, there is no widely accepted and comprehensive framework for understanding and assessing the competitiveness of farms in different market, economic, institutional and natural environments.…”