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Abstract
Economic efficiency in greenhouse production is a multifactor category, and measuring it through a single quantitative indicator yields an incomplete picture of a farm's actual condition: a farm achieving high yields may simultaneously exhibit low profitability or weak financial stability. This study develops an integral criteria system for assessing the organizational and economic capacity of greenhouse use at the farm level. The paper reviews the classical (Debreu, Farrell) and contemporary (DEA, SFA) strands of efficiency measurement, and on that basis substantiates a three-group system covering resource efficiency (land, labour and resource productivity), financial performance (profitability, unit cost, payback period) and organizational condition (financial stability category, cluster participation, use of state support). Four-level zonal thresholds are specified for each indicator, and a three-stage aggregation algorithm based on the "weakest link" principle is proposed, whereby a farm's integral rating is determined by its lowest-performing indicator rather than by a weighted average. The system is applied to greenhouse farms in Samarkand region, Uzbekistan, using official departmental and bank register data for 2025. The application reveals a substantial reserve for improving resource productivity - only 4.8 per cent of farms use hydroponic technology - and a binding data constraint, as approximately 48 per cent of regional farms are recorded in the bank register. The proposed system is complementary to, rather than a substitute for, Data Envelopment Analysis: it converts frontier-based results into an actionable management classification. The findings can be used to group farms by efficiency level and to design targeted state support measures.