Measuring the Economic Efficiency of Italian Agricultural Enterprises

Sustainability of Agaricus blazei Murrill Mushrooms in Classical and Semi-Mechanized Growing System, through Economic Efficiency, Using Different Culture Substrates

“…A certain level of production is required for a profitable mushroom crop, which is estimated at 30-40 kg sqm −1 [27]. When viewed from this point of view, it can be seen that for all 12 variants analyzed, and the average yield falls within this range (30.7 kg sqm −1 for V12 and 42 kg sqm −1 for V5).…”

Implementation of the system of economic security in the enterprise and its impact on the results of the economic activity of the enterprise

“…-calculation of enterprise performance evaluation [19][20][21][22][23]; -analysis of the improvement of performance indicators [24][25][26]; -analysis of the organizational and economic mechanism of the management system with a view to determining the economic effectiveness of its work [27,28]; -business threat analysis and risk assessment [29]. In work [19] various approaches to an estimation of efficiency of the vertically integrated association of the enterprises are considered.…”

“…The need to measure the economic efficiency of Italian agricultural enterprises is noted in [21]. The work [22] is devoted to the issues of assessing the effectiveness of economic activity of enterprises.…”

An assessment of the governance efficiency of agricultural farms

“…Subsequently, many "strange" phenomena, associated with farming development around the globe, cannot be explained by Traditional Economics, such as: why in a particular country, subsector, and region there is a huge variation in the levels of "economic" efficiency of farms; why for a long period of time there exist so many highly sustainable farms with "unsatisfactory" (low) productivity and efficiency; why farming adjustments have been often associated with the transfer of resources management to "less efficient" (low productive) structures; why there are farms and firms at all, and why there are so many types of farms and agrarian organizations, etc. For instance, in Bulgaria during the period of the country's EU accession and membership (since 2007), there has been enormous differentiation in the factor's productivity of individual farms, and holdings of different sizes, juridical types, product specialization, and geographical location [13][14][15]. Furthermore, there has been considerable restructuring and adjustments of farming structures, associated with the transfer of management into large agro-firms and cooperative farms, and a significant decrease in the number of agricultural holdings in the last two decades (one quarter in 2007 compared to 2003, and 73 % by 2020 comparing to 2007 [16].…”