Agricultural Economics, 2002 (vol. 48), issue 1
Adoption of ICT in agricultural management in the United Kingdom: the intra-rural digital divide
M.F. Warren
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.17221/5280-AGRICECON 
The benefits arising from adoption of information and communication technology by farming businesses are explored, and the prospect of a digital divide appearing in the UK agricultural sector is discussed, drawing on results of research at the University of Plymouth. It is proposed that countries in Central and Eastern Europe will be subject to the same phenomenon, and that the potential disadvantage suffered by non-adopters of this technology will be sufficiently severe to justify both policy intervention and further research.
Multivariate statistical methods as a tool of financial analysis of farm businesses
J. Novák, H. Sůvová, J. Vondráček
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):9-12 | DOI: 10.17221/5281-AGRICECON
The paper is focused on the evaluation of the possibilities of analysing the relations between economic and financial indicators of farm businesses by the application of multivariate statistical methods. It also indicates the possibilities of the construction of a general economic indicator of business effectiveness.
Evaluation of chosen benefits on environment and landscape coming from Czech agriculture
V. Křůmalová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):13-17 | DOI: 10.17221/5282-AGRICECON
The objective of the study was to assess public goods coming from agriculture. Decisions about subjects of the assessment was the first step which was followed by the choice of suitable methods in view of data availability. The choice came out mainly from the most significant agricultural subsidies in the framework of public finance extent and were introduced as multifunctional agriculture maintenance (landscape maintenance, grassing, vulnerable farming in protected landscape areas and national parks etc.). Landscape maintenance was considered as the most relevant and it was quantified by direct valuation method (contingent valuation method). The other...
Evaluation of agri-environmental policy delivery system on regional level - case study in Bílé Karpaty
J. Pražan
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):18-21 | DOI: 10.17221/5283-AGRICECON
Regional officials who are dealing with target groups and should cope with real world limits and conflicts heavily influence implementation of agri-environmental policies. This process is not addressed enough to understand what are the concepts behind and potential difficulties when introduced the EU policies. Group of actors is operating and acting to pursue their interest on the regional level usually. Their interactions motivated by particular common interest finally could turn the policy to a failure or to a success. In order to answer some questions regarding implementation process, the case study was prepared in Bílé Karpaty dealing with farming...
Consequences of applying the Conception of the Agricultural and Food Policy to the year 2005 and effects of the optimized allocation of production in the Slovak Republic
M. Božík, I. Foltýn, I. Zedníčková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):22-28 | DOI: 10.17221/5284-AGRICECON
In the paper, there is described using of the optimization models AGRO-3 SR for modeling food production chains in the Slovak Republic (the modified version of the Czech model AGRO-3) and ALOKA for optimal allocation of the domestic agricultural production computed by AGRO-3 SR into 4 different regions of the SR for simulation of consequences of various types of agrarian policies on the effectiveness of the Slovak agriculture to the medium-term horizon 2005. There are formulated and evaluated 4 scenarios for the model AGRO-3 SR and two alternatives A and B for the model ALOKA relating to all scenarios. Results of simulations have shown that the best...
Institutional problems of pig meat sector in the Czech Republic
M. Pourová, M. Pour
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):29-35 | DOI: 10.17221/5285-AGRICECON
The paper deals with the institutional problems in the pig meat sector in the Czech Republic. The information was obtained in the frame of Project PHARE-ACE P97-8098-R "Institutional Economics in the Agri-Food Business: How can Structural Policy Help to Integrate EU?" The research was performed in year 2000 by means of a questionnaire method and a method of interviews with managers of individual entities in the food chain of pig meat sector. Problems of the execution of property rights in supplier-customer relations in the Czech pig meat sector are the following (institutional view): poor enforceability of property rights, sale for cash, refraining...
Segmenting the tourism market using perceptual and attitudinal mapping
U.R. Orth, J. Turečková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(1):36-48 | DOI: 10.17221/5286-AGRICECON
Decreasing numbers of tourists to the Czech Republic point at a weakening competitive position of Czech destinations during the most recent years. For many communities, tourism may be a short-lived economic dream when understanding of tourists´ perceptions and travel motives is lacking. The two objectives pursued in this study are 1) an identification of the positions of competing destinations and 2) an a-posteriori segmentation with psychographic variables. Market segmentation becomes the crucial factor in the strategic design process of target marketing. Like many other markets, tourism markets do not respond homogeneously to marketing activities....