Agricultural Economics, 2004 (vol. 50), issue 8

Scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Slovakia

P. Bielik, M. Rajčániová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):331-335 | DOI: 10.17221/5211-AGRICECON  

The scale efficiency enables to measure technical relationship between farm size and efficient land using as a basic production factor according to its different allocation. The research has been done on a selected sample of agricultural enterprises in the Slovak Republic. A non-parametric data envelopment analysis approach has allowed investigating the differences in efficiency among various size groups of 110 agricultural enterprises. The research has proved that about 10 per cent of the analysed farms were operating during the analysed period at the optimal scale, 77 per cent at the above optimal scale and 13 per cent of the farms could increase...

The comparison of natural and value indicators of cereals in the Slovak Republic in accession period to European Union

D. Šimo, N. Kulková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):336-341 | DOI: 10.17221/5212-AGRICECON  

Cereals have a significant position in land farming in Slovakia. Important commodities are wheat, barley and maize. In the years 1999-2000, a research showed that Slovakia's natural production was lagging behind the developed countries of the EU. Extraordinary low yields were recorded in the economic year 2000/2001 due to drought during the vegetation period. In this paper, there are analyzed the production prices, costs, cereals efficiency and profitability costs. We have also calculated the break-even point in yields, in costs and in production prices of cereals. In addition, we have done some suggestions and recommendations on how to analyze the results.

Possible approaches to the solution of conflict situations in managerial practice

J. Višňovský, M. Korenková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):342-344 | DOI: 10.17221/5213-AGRICECON  

Strategies used in conflict solutions include: avoiding, adjusting, coercion, compromise and cooperation. Although in our sample of respondents the most efficient strategy (cooperation) ranked No.1, almost the same preference was achieved by the strategy of coercion manifesting the directive style of management, which is becoming ineffective under present conditions.

New Economy - an analysis of the competitiveness related to education of students and managers

A. Podolák

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):345-348 | DOI: 10.17221/5214-AGRICECON  

New Economy deals with competitiveness analysed by international comparative advantage of commodity and regional trade. According to New Economy we are forced to quantify the contribution of tradable goods and services into international competitiveness. New Economy shifts the current national competitiveness into a higher comparative advantage of comparable commodities of the world competitiveness. The methodology of calculation of domestic inputs and outputs is expanded by inputs and outputs of the comparable countries, integrated territories or also international agro-commodity trade.

Selected aspects of development of the Information Society in the enlargement process of the European Union

K. Hennyeyová, I. Okenka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):349-352 | DOI: 10.17221/5215-AGRICECON  

The information society represents the most fundamental change in our life, with huge opportunities for all people. Program eEurope has been very successful in extending Internet connectivity and has helped to obtain the adoption of the current legal framework for electronic communications and for e-commerce. The eEurope initiative should also become part of the enlargement process of the European Union. Slovakia and other candidate countries take part in realization of the program eEurope+ to support activities in using new information and communication technologies (ICT). eEurope 2005 carries the ambitious objective...

Enlargement of the European Union - a new economic and social reality for agrobusiness entities

E. Horská

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):353-358 | DOI: 10.17221/5216-AGRICECON  

Goal of the paper is to identify opportunities and threats following from the European integration process and influencing the agribusiness entities in the accession country - Slovak Republic. These topics have begun one of the current themes connected with the approaching date of the Slovak Republic accession to the European Union. It is related to the fact, that agrarian but mostly food processing markets have their own specificities, appearing with their typical high sensitivity to the outside environment influence and strong enterprise motivation to competition. In the paper, there are also outlined tasks for business management to analyze external...

Forming of the agrarian services in Slovakia in the process of European integration

I.M. Zoborský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):359-364 | DOI: 10.17221/5217-AGRICECON  

The paper analyses formation of specialized activities of Slovak agrarian services. The paper focuses attention on the definition of agrarian services, evaluation of their position and progress of their transformation, their quantitative development and distribution in the regions of the Slovak Republic, as well as on their economic results during the period from 1995 to 2001. Biological, technical, and other specialized services significantly influence the reproduction process of the plant and animal production even in the period of European integration.

Improving quality of economic information systems to ensure competitive advantage for companies

M. Kučera, A. Látečková, P. Szovics

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):365-368 | DOI: 10.17221/5218-AGRICECON  

A prosperous company with a goal to maintain competitiveness in a strong international environment should eliminate obsolete management methods and innovate the information system used in the company with the application of effective economic software. This paper deals with the current situation of economic software or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in companies and opportunities and advantages of using software in the area of cost management. Economic gains in practice are also discussed in this contribution.

Comparative analysis of the economic role of agriculture in the EU countries

Z. Sojková, B. Stehlíková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):369-376 | DOI: 10.17221/5219-AGRICECON  

The role of agriculture within the frame of the enlarged EU is analysed in this paper. There is a requirement to perceive the tendency towards the downgrading of the status of agriculture in the national economy of the EU countries with the respect of the differences in the importance of agriculture mainly in the countries that are the new EU members. The role of agriculture is characterised by the following indices: share of the agricultural employees in the total employment, share of the added value of agriculture in the GDP, and index of the value added per one agricultural worker. These indices are the base for the construction of the "index of...

European integration - a challenge for Slovakia International Scientific Days 2004

H. Borsuková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):377-378 | DOI: 10.17221/5220-AGRICECON  

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45th anniversary of the foundation of Faculty of Economics and Management at Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

I.M. Zoborský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2004, 50(8):379-380 | DOI: 10.17221/5221-AGRICECON