Agricultural Economics, 2002 (vol. 48), issue 8

The adjustment of agrarian business structure to the European agrarian structures during pre access period into the EU

V. Gozora

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):333-338 | DOI: 10.17221/5330-AGRICECON

The article deals with the preparation of the agricultural business structure for accession into the European agrarian structures in the pre-accession period. Main attention is devoted to the preparation of agrarian management and to changes in the macroeconomic area. From the viewpoint of the information mentioned above, the paper includes the explanation of the agrarian functions in the agrarian sector and prediction of the development of business base in the sectors of agriculture, food processing industry and services. The synthetic part deals with the integration and globalization tendencies in the agricultural and food production.

Selected problems of the Slovak foreign agri-food trade

D. Šimo, I. Ubrežiová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):339-342 | DOI: 10.17221/5331-AGRICECON

The foreign agri-food trade has showed an unsuitable development for the Slovak Republic during the 1999-2001s. The negative balance for the competitive commodities is increasing. These are the commodities for the production of which the SR has suitable natural conditions. The contribution deals with the selected competitive commodities in the kilogram prices. The study shows the decreasing tendency of kilogram prices in import and the increasing tendency in export. Higher export price is the consequence of the higher value added and thus also higher revenues.

The productive and economic parameters of the Gemer region agricultural soils

O. Hronec, J. Vilček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):343-346 | DOI: 10.17221/5332-AGRICECON

On the basis of structure and qualitative parameters of agricultural soils, there are only 23.4% non profitable soils for the winter wheat growing in the total area of the Gemer Region. The same percentage for the corn maize growing is 78.7%, for the sugar beet growing 80.0% and for winter rape growing 46.0% of the total agricultural soils area in the mentioned region. Generally, for the crop production, it can be stated, that without production subsidies, at the present economic situation there are 65.9% soils non-profitable, 23.0% low profitable, 6.3% medium profitable and 4.8% high profitable in the Gemer Region. The calculated economic parameters...

Labour implementation and efficiency of the foodstuffs wholesales

M. Vicen, I. Ubrežiová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):347-352 | DOI: 10.17221/5333-AGRICECON

The analysis is made in the set of the selected foodstuffs wholesales in the Slovak Republic and shows their differences from the viewpoint of the size (sale place 15 m2-1 300 m2 , storage space 106 m2-6 500 m2 ), number of workers (1-81) and yearly turnover (219 thousand SKK-2 748 thousand SKK). The main part of wholesales is operated by owners (83%) and a small part (17%) is on lease. From the viewpoint of location, the wholesales are situated in the centre of town (50%) and village (27%). The rest is located in the habitations and suburbs of town. The competitive wholesales (43%) are situated in the distance from 11 to 500 m. The highest labour...

Assets and financial situation in the companies of agricultural primary production in Slovakia

Ž. Hacherová, P. Szovics

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):353-358 | DOI: 10.17221/5334-AGRICECON

This paper analyses assets and liability structure on the selected data set from the primary agricultural production in Slovakia. Accounting is presented as a complex foundation, information system, which provides information for decision-making and company management. The source of input data are accounting records generating statements of finances. The theme of the paper is selected issues of balance sheet analysis. The results of the research show unfavorable total assets development. The index 2000/1999 has the value 96.7. There are long-term problems in liabilities volume and structure. Equity capital stagnates. Borrowed capital decrease because...

The influence of cost taxes on the development of agriculture in Slovakia

J. Bojňanský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):359-363 | DOI: 10.17221/5335-AGRICECON

The author deals with the influence of cost taxes on the development of agriculture, mainly those taxes, which have an important impact from the point of view of forming an entrepreneurial environment in agriculture. Among the cost taxes, the impact of land tax, building tax, road tax and income tax is most important. The analysis also deals with the contribution to the insurance funds related to employees. This contribution can also be considered as a taxation. The article also gives a prediction of the expected development of the consequences of the accepted tax law changes.

Preparation of e-learning methodology in distance learning

D. Tóthová, K. Hennyeyová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(8):364-366 | DOI: 10.17221/5336-AGRICECON

Education should be understood as a method of sharing and disseminating information. It deals not only with obtaining the right information in the right time but also with full understanding and processing of the information in the given context. Distance learning is a technology, where the distance between a teacher and a student, or among students, is characterized by the speed of the feedback, i.e. how quickly the student gets the feedback from his teacher - tutor. This type of education cannot exist without electronic education. It means providing the students with the content of a course via all electronic media including Internet, intranet and...