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Article
Government’s Interventional Training Impact on Farms Competitiveness
Author(s)
Vlada Vitunskienė and Edvardas Makšeckas
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6264/2018.03.005
Affiliation(s)
Institute of Economics, Accounting and Finance, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Akademija 53361, Lithuania
ABSTRACT
The agricultural sector, in
most cases is supported in developed countries and one of the support measures (government interventions) is training
of the sector’s actors. The research was carried out to determine the training as a research object for competitiveness theories, analyze the impact of these interventions on farms’ competitiveness and its reflection in indicators that farms’
competitiveness is described with. The study was based on the counterfactual impact evaluation method, scientific literature
as well as data from year 2008 and 2012 Lithuanian government’s interventional farmers training, linked with
respondent’s data provided by Farm Accountancy Data Network. During the
research, eligibility for counterfactual impact evaluation method was
confirmed, similarity criteria of farms were developed, according to these criteria,
nearest neighbor matching performed and impact detected. The study shows that informal professional
training of farmers as a government intervention affects competitiveness of family farms
and how these effects can be measured. It was found that the farmers that participated in this
training achieved higher productivity and thus increased their farms’
competitiveness. The findings of this study contribute to the discussion on the
importance of the public support
for the farms’ competitiveness. Informal professional training
can be a governmental instrument
to foster farms’ competitiveness development.
KEYWORDS
Competitiveness, intervention, informal professional training, family farm.
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