Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 2
Written by Veselin KRUSTEV

European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) supports farm sustainability as a definition by its measures and tools, but the issue of its implementation efficiency differs despite of the common sense that European Commission (EC) stimulates the cohesion and coherence principles to all of the Member States (MS). This paper aims to reveal the efficiency of CAP implementation on field crop farms separated by economic sizes (6 classes) and compared to non-specialized average farm's sustainability levels. The technical efficiency (TE) scores are received by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) using Benefit of Doubt (BoD) modelling modification on 15 indicators representing equal number of variables of the three main sustainability dimensions – economic, social and ecological. The received results clarify а huge difference of CAP implementation between the most advanced, largest holdings and the other five smaller economic size classes. Furthermore, it is exposed that payments per unit area benefit the most efficient farms that apply the best return of scale (and scale efficiency) at the expense of all others.

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