Agricultural Economics, 2003 (vol. 49), issue 1

Diversification of individual farms in Slovakia with regard to production use patterns and level of income

G. Blaas

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):1-7 | DOI: 10.17221/5257-AGRICECON  

During the years of transition to market economy, a variety of farming types has evolved in Slovakia. Corporate farming is still pursued on about 80 per cent of the total agricultural land area, but a gradual increase of individual farms can be observed. A large portion of the registered individual farms is producing both for the market and for the self-supply of households, but the importance of specialised commercial farms has been growing during the recent years. Their share in the total number of registered individual farms can be estimated as 25 per cent and they specialise as a rule on cash crop products. The average production area is 130 hectares,...

The comparison of the cost-rate and profitability of the agricultural products in the SR and CR

M. Kubanková, V. Burianová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):8-13 | DOI: 10.17221/5258-AGRICECON  

The article deals with the comparison and evaluation of the development of economic indicators, such as the costs, yields, economic result and profitability in the Czech and Slovak Republics for the period of years 1997-2000. The economic indicators are evaluated and compared on the basis of sample survey results of the RIAFE Bratislava and RIAE (Research Institute of Agricultural Economics) Prague. The first part contains the evaluation and comparison of the costs, yields and the economic results for agricultural production and its branches recalculated per 1 ha of agricultural land (a. l.). The second part contains the evaluation and comparison of...

Quantitative evaluation of the effect of economic tools on economic policies in the food industry of the SR

D. Matošková, V. Ižáková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):14-21 | DOI: 10.17221/5259-AGRICECON  

The article deals with the evaluation of competitiveness in milling, feedstuffs, pasta, spirits, wine, beer and malt industries in the Slovak Republic. It further evaluates the impacts of economic policy tools on the stated sections of food industry by means of the PAM analysis. The impact of the policies on income, costs and profits of food production in the selected food industry branches has been discovered, based on the effects of divergences and coefficients of nominal and effective protection.

Comparison of the value added development in the agricultural and food sectors and the efficiency of its creation

M. Ševčíková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):22-29 | DOI: 10.17221/5260-AGRICECON  

The article summarises the results of the analysis of value added (VA) in agriculture and food industry and the share of intermediate consumption in the value added. The results show that during 1993-2000, the Slovak agricultural sector (farming, hunting, forestry and fisheries), where farming is clearly dominant, together with the construction sector, reported the most significant decline in their relative contribution to the overall value added created in the national economy, whereas the contribution of market services increased. The moderate increase (1998, 1999) in the contribution of the food sector to the total value added in the national economy,...

The development of the price parity in the foodstuffs production and consumption vertical

M. Brodová, M. Ševčíková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):30-36 | DOI: 10.17221/5261-AGRICECON  

The analysis of the development of prices in the foodstuffs vertical, it means the prices of inputs into the agriculture, agricultural products, food products and consumption prices of foodstuffs, on the basis of the price scissors, and with crucial products on the basis of the price shares and differences, has shown that price liberalisation with the applied partial regulation of their development within the market-oriented reform has evoked the greatest raise of prices within 1991-2001 regarding inputs into the agriculture, while prices of agricultural products were growing slower. The parity coefficient (the ratio of price indices) between the development...

Evaluation of common projects efficiency in agriculture

K. Šrédl

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):37-39 | DOI: 10.17221/5262-AGRICECON  

The quality of economic education is one of the economic growth factors because its increasing leads to a higher level of human resources. The efficiency of education is most often defined as the relation between outputs (effects, utilities) of education and costs invested into this education (input). For increasing of the education quality, it is necessary to increase public funds up to 6% of GDP to achieve the level of developed market economies.

World food problem

V. Jeníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(1):40-50 | DOI: 10.17221/5263-AGRICECON