Change in Licence Policy for CAAS Journals

We would like to inform you that the journals published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) will change their licence policy. All articles submitted to CAAS journals from 2026 will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) allows broad reuse, distribution, and adaptation of published articles, provided that appropriate credit to the original authors is given.

Articles submitted by 2025 are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.


Impact factor (WoS):

2024: 1.8
Q2 – Economics; Q2 – Agricultural Economics & Policy
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.9

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Agricultural Economics

  • ISSN 0139-570X (Print)
  • ISSN 1805-9295 (On-line)

An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika)

  • The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
  • Editor-in-Chief: prof. Ing. Lukáš Čechura, Ph.D.
  • Co-editors: Ing. Jaroslav Pražan, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Jindřich Špička, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Pavla Vrabcová, Ph.D.
  • Executive Editor: Ing. Zdeňka Náglová, Ph.D.
  • Technical Editor: MgA. Hana Slaninová
  • The journal is published monthly

Journal leaflet Agricultural Economics - Call for Papers

Aims & Scope

The journal publishes scientific articles: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.


Current issue

List of reviewers 2025

Editorial Department

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(1):I-II  

Can sustainable practices optimise fertiliser use and economic efficiency? A micro-panel analysisOriginal Paper

Faruque As Sunny, Juping Lan, Mohammad Ariful Islam

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(1):1-18 | DOI: 10.17221/473/2024-AGRICECON  

The intensification of agricultural practices in Bangladesh has caused significant environmental challenges. This has also undermined farmers' economic sustainability, mainly due to the excessive use of subsidised chemical fertilisers. To address these issues and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Bangladesh has prioritised the adoption of sustainable farming practices, including the recommended fertiliser application (RFA). However, whether the adoption of RFA ensures economic sustainability remains uncertain. This study evaluates how the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute's (BRRI) proposed RFA affects fertiliser use...

Impact of formal and informal environmental regulations on agricultural carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from ChinaOriginal Paper

Yumiao Zhang, Qi Yin, Yufan Wu, Kun Ma

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(1):19-36 | DOI: 10.17221/467/2024-AGRICECON  

Agricultural carbon emissions (ACE) is a critical contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, which have already become a common challenge for global carbon reduction. As a major agricultural producer and largest carbon emitter, China has made great efforts to reduce ACE. Using the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2022, this study explores the heterogeneous impacts of formal environmental regulations (FER) and informal environmental regulations (IER) on ACE. The results reveal that both FER and IER have significant effect on reducing ACE, with FER showing a more pronounced effect. The mechanism analysis indicates that agricultural...

Non-farm employment and agricultural mechanisation adoption: A reciprocal relationshipOriginal Paper

Hang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Thi Quynh Anh Le, Pham Xuan Hung, Nguyen Thai Phan

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(1):37-55 | DOI: 10.17221/68/2025-AGRICECON  

This study investigates the reciprocal relationship between non-farm employment and mechanisation adoption of smallholders in Vietnam using the longitudinal Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) 2008–2016 dataset. By employing the correlated random effects with the Mundlak approach to address the selection bias from the unobserved heterogeneity of panel data and the instrumental variables regressions to treat the endogeneity issue of non-farm participation and mechanisation adoption, the findings revealed that non-farm employment and mechanisation adoption have a positive interactive relationship. The mechanisation adoption in...

Long-term trends in economic and environmental efficiency of EU agriculture: A DEA-Malmquist approachOriginal Paper

Dirk Beyer, Jana Hinke

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(1):56-67 | DOI: 10.17221/6/2025-AGRICECON  

Enhancing economic and environmental efficiency is a fundamental objective shared by all European economic sectors, with agriculture being a particular area of focus. In this study, economic and environmental efficiency are considered in parallel and compared in terms of their long-term development. From an economic perspective, the classical production factors of labour, capital and land are compared with economic production output. The environmental perspective of the study focuses on greenhouse gases and acidifying gases, with the investigation based on data from Eurostat from 2009 to 2020. Due to constraints regarding the  availability of data...