Agricultural Economics, 2005 (vol. 51), issue 7

Agribusiness - a scope as well as an opportunity for contemporary agriculture

V. Bečvářová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):285-292 | DOI: 10.17221/5109-AGRICECON  

The contribution deals with the key issues of contemporary food economy development as a system and its economic implication in regard to changing position of agricultural enterprises. It explicates why globalisation and integration processes have changed the structure and the interrelationships along the food commodity chains and have created completely the new economic environment for production agriculture. Based upon the economic theory outcomes the essential topics related to the problems why agriculture is largely influenced by the final stages of agri-food commodity chains are explained there. The active response on the demand structural changes...

Price transmission and estimations of price elasticity of secondary demand functions: application on commodity market for food grains

P. Syrovátka, I. Lechanová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):293-303 | DOI: 10.17221/5110-AGRICECON  

The paper is focused on the quantitative analysis of the price transmission and on its use for the estimations of the direct price elasticity of the vertical-derived demand functions. The price transmissions were examined between the commodity markets for the food grain and the consumer markets for the bakery products and flour. The data (1995-2002) were taken over from the Czech Statistical Office (CSO), the Price Statistics (PS) and the Statistics of Family Budgets (SFB). The intensity of the inter-market price transmission was assessed by means of the coefficients of the price transmission elasticity (EPT). For enumerating of EPT,...

Current situation of demand for organic products in the Czech Republic

I. Živělová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):304-308 | DOI: 10.17221/5111-AGRICECON  

The paper is focused on the analysis of consumers' interest as one of the limit factor of demand for organic products. Consumers'interest is derived from questionnaire survey, which includes direct consumers as well as retailers with bio-products.

Analysis of current situation in sales of selected organic products in the Czech Republic

J. Jánský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):309-313 | DOI: 10.17221/5112-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with the analysis of current situation in sales of selected bio-products in the conditions of the Czech Republic. It is focused on the structure of plant and animal products, sold quantities, product prices, conditions of sale, common distribution channels and so on. Selected organic products are divided into two groups for the purpose of this analysis - products coming from producer to consumer through distributor and products coming to consumer through processor and distributor.

Supplier-industries of brewing and wine-production in the Czech Republic and their development

P. Žufan

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):314-321 | DOI: 10.17221/5113-AGRICECON  

The paper compares the main factors influencing the key supplier-industries for brewing and wine-production in the Czech Republic - hop-growing and winegrowing - and it is a part of a more extensive research focused especially on the processing industries, and the specifics of their analyses. The importance of hop-growing and winegrowing is based on the fact that they significantly influence not only the final product, but also the competitiveness in the successive industries of the product vertical. Similar influence within the examined industries is evidenced in the close interconnection with the above-mentioned (main) successive processing-part,...

Comparison of analyses of winegrowing and wine-production in the Czech Republic, the EU, and South Africa

P. Tomšík, H. Chládková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):322-328 | DOI: 10.17221/5114-AGRICECON  

The area of vineyards has increased to 19 261.5 hectares and the number of wine producers to 18.292 by 1 May 2004. This branch needs a long-term study that will lead to the establishment of the new politics for viniculture and wine-growing, related to the needs of the region. The trends are compared to the main European producer - France, and another country from the so called "New World"- the South African Republic. The researches are focused on the consumption of wine by population, share in the gross national product, employment in this branch, areas of vineyards, and number of wine-growers.

The formalization of knowledge in agricultural industry business processes

I. Rábová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2005, 51(7):329-334 | DOI: 10.17221/5115-AGRICECON  

This article deals with the most important part of business modelling, with business process modelling. The presented process models are achieved by using common and special UML diagrams. The business process is one of the four basic business concepts creating complex business architecture and it is dynamic, structured and complicated part of the business. In business process, there are stored significant rules and knowledge of the business. Those issues could be applicable to the knowledge formalization in the agricultural business