Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach

Properly targeted agri-environmental subsidies (AES) can ensure the implementation of the European Green Deal goals. Hence, it is important to know what factors encourage family farms to participate in the AES schemes in order to select appropriate political tools and properly use the allocated subs...

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Main Authors: Kristina Gesevičienė, Erika Besusparienė
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2023-12-01
Series:Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales
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Online Access:https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/19156
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description Properly targeted agri-environmental subsidies (AES) can ensure the implementation of the European Green Deal goals. Hence, it is important to know what factors encourage family farms to participate in the AES schemes in order to select appropriate political tools and properly use the allocated subsidies. We propose a Multilayer Perceptron neural network to examine 34 Lithuanian crop family farms and identify the factors affecting their participation in the AES. The results indicate that the decision by the Lithuanian family farms regarding the participation mainly depends on a few factors, including the agricultural production output of the farm and farmers’ education, while other factors, such as farmer age and farm size, were less important.
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spelling doaj-art-5ed74f400c304c6cb4c6713f265d47672025-02-03T10:26:40ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaEconomía Agraria y Recursos Naturales1578-07322174-73502023-12-0123211714210.7201/earn.2023.02.0518348Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network ApproachKristina Gesevičienė0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1547-858XErika Besusparienė1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-1307Vytautas Magnus UniversityVytautas Magnus University Properly targeted agri-environmental subsidies (AES) can ensure the implementation of the European Green Deal goals. Hence, it is important to know what factors encourage family farms to participate in the AES schemes in order to select appropriate political tools and properly use the allocated subsidies. We propose a Multilayer Perceptron neural network to examine 34 Lithuanian crop family farms and identify the factors affecting their participation in the AES. The results indicate that the decision by the Lithuanian family farms regarding the participation mainly depends on a few factors, including the agricultural production output of the farm and farmers’ education, while other factors, such as farmer age and farm size, were less important.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/19156agri-environmental subsidyagricultural practicescommon agricultural policyneural networkmultilayer perceptron
spellingShingle Kristina Gesevičienė
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Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales
agri-environmental subsidy
agricultural practices
common agricultural policy
neural network
multilayer perceptron
title Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
title_full Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
title_fullStr Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
title_full_unstemmed Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
title_short Modelling Lithuanian family farms’ participation in agri-environmental subsidy schemes: a Neural Network Approach
title_sort modelling lithuanian family farms participation in agri environmental subsidy schemes a neural network approach
topic agri-environmental subsidy
agricultural practices
common agricultural policy
neural network
multilayer perceptron
url https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/19156
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