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Table 6 Calculation formulas for each farm’s economic performance indicator used in the analysis

From: Conventional versus organic olive farming: which has a better economic performance?

Indicator (units)

Formula

RECAN data source codes

Productivity

Land productivity (€/ha)

\(\text{Total output / UAA}\)

\({\text{SE131}} \, \text{/} \, {\text{SE025}}\)

Labor productivity (€/AWU)

\(\text{Total output / Total labor}\)

\({\text{SE131}} \, \text{/} \, {\text{SE010}}\)

Capital productivity (%)

\(\text{Total output / Total assets}\)

\({\text{SE131}} \, \text{/} \, {\text{SE436}}\)

Profitability

1. Sales revenue (€/ha)

\({\text{SE131}}\)

2. CAP subsidies (€/ha)

\({\text{SE605}}\)

 CAP 1st pillar subsidies (€/ha)

\(\text{SE610 + SE615 + SE630}\)

 CAP 2nd pillar subsidies (€/ha)

\(\text{SE624 + SE689}\)

A. Total revenue (€/ha)

\({1}+{2}\)

\(\text{1 + 2}\)

3. Intermediate consump. (€/ha)

\({\text{SE275}}\)

B. Gross margin (€/ha)

\({\text{A}}-{3}\)

\({\text{A}}-{\text{SE275}}\)

4. Wages paid (€/ha)

\({\text{SE370}}\)

5. Rent paid (€/ha)

\({\text{SE375}}\)

6. Depreciation (€/ha)

\({\text{SE360}}\)

C. EBIT (€/ha)

\({\text{B}} - {4} - {5} - {6}\)

\({\text{B}} - {\text{SE370}} {-} {\text{SE375}} {-} {\text{SE360}}\)

D. EBT (€/ha)

C − Interest paid (€/ha)

\(C {-} {\text{SE}}380\)

E. Net income (€//ha)

D − Taxes paid (€//ha)

\(D {-} {\text{SE}}390\)

ROA (%)

\(\text{EBIT / Total assets}\)

\({\text{EBIT}} \, \text{/} \, {\text{SE436}}\)

ROE (%)

\(\text{Net income / Equity}\)

\(\text{Net income} \, \text{/} \, {\text{SE501}}\)

Viability

Total opport. costs (€//ha)

\({\text{OC}}_{\text{Land}} + \, {\text{OC}}_{\text{Labor}} \, + {\text{OC}}_{\text{Capital}}\)

Economic profit (€//ha)

\(\text{Net income}-\text{ TOC}\)

Long-term econ. viabilitya

\(\text{Net income} \, \text{/ TOC}\)

Short-term econ. viabilitya

\(\text{Net income} \, \text{/}{\text{ OC}}_{\text{Labor}}\)

Resilience

CV of net income (%)

\(\frac{{\sigma_{{{\text{Net income}}_{{\text{t}}} }} { }}}{{\overline{{{\text{Net income}}_{{\text{t}}} }} }}\)

Net income resistance (%)

\(\mathrm{Min}\left[\frac{ {\text{Net income}}_{\mathrm{t}}-\overline{{\text{Net income} }_{\mathrm{t}}} }{\overline{{\text{Net income} }_{\mathrm{t}}}} \forall t\right]\)

Shannon div. index (SDI)a

\(- \overline{{\sum }_{\mathrm{i}}{\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{i},\mathrm{t}}\times \mathrm{ln}({\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{i},\mathrm{t}})}\)

\({\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{i}}\) based on SE035, SE041, SE046, SE050, SE055, SE060, SE065, SE071, SE075

Specific costs adjus. flexibility (%)

\(\overline{{\left| {\frac{{{\text{Specif. costs}}_{{\text{t}}} - {\text{Specif. costs}}_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}{{{\text{Specif. costs}}_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}} \right|}}\)

\(\overline{{\left| {\frac{{{\text{SE}}281_{{\text{t}}} - {\text{SE}}281_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}{{{\text{SE}}281_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}} \right|}}\)

Labor input adjus. flexibility (%)

\(\overline{{\left| {\frac{{{\text{Total labor}}_{{\text{t}}} - {\text{Total labor}}_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}{{{\text{Total labor}}_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}} \right|}}\)

\(\overline{{\left| {\frac{{{\text{SE}}010_{{\text{t}}} - {\text{SE}}010_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}{{{\text{SE}}010_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} }}} \right|}}\)

SDI adjus. flexibility (%)

\(\overline{{\left| {{\text{SDI}}_{{\text{t}}} - {\text{SDI}}_{{{\text{t}} - 1}} } \right|}}\)

Independence

Revenue dependency (%)

\(\text{Total CAP subsidies / Total revenue}\)

\({\text{SE605}} \, \text{/} \, \text{(SE131} \, \text{+} \, \text{SE605)}\)

Net income dependency (%)

\(\text{Total CAP subsidies / }\text{Net income}\)

\({\text{SE605}} \, \text{/} \, \text{Net income}\)

  1. a Resilience indicators were calculated for a balanced panel of 212 olive farms for the period 2014–2020, including 128 conventional and 84 organic olive farms. The subscript \(t\) in these indicators refers to each of the years included in the analyzed period