Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Vineyard productivity and land inequality in rural Croatia

Author(s):

Anita Silvana Ilak Peršurić

Recieved Date: 2013-06-23, Accepted Date: 2013-10-20

Abstract:

The unequal distribution of vineyard land could be according to a prior naive theorizing be a source of inefficiency in grape production. The paper investigates whether, vineyard land inequality due to specific less or more egalitarian land distribution, is a source of possible inefficiency measured by grape productivity within Croatia’s counties. We analyzed these issues by using cross-county data on inequality in operational holdings of vineyard land from Agricultural Survey in 2003. After constructing the Gini coefficient for vineyard land holdings, and other relevant exogenous variables which cover necessary inputs condition as an average holding size per ha, labor, capital (represented by alternative variables summed by number of tractors, barrels and cisterns), among counties, an estimation of a production function, is done by OLS estimations of grape output per ha.

Keywords:

Grape productivity, production function, vineyard land inequality, Croatia

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Journal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2013
Volume: 11
Issue: 3&4
Category: Agriculture
Pages: 675-678

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