Agricultural Economics, 2006 (vol. 52), issue 10

Information systems - tool for changing our future

E. Šilerová, K. Lang

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):447-450 | DOI: 10.17221/5049-AGRICECON  

The article deals with the usage of the information systems and expansion of the portals. In the part "results", there is elaborated a questionnaire applied on the agrarian sector. Today, the approach to the development of the information systems is oriented to the implementation of the portal solutions, which enables us a web access to the information and applications with an effective possibility of management and administration. Here, we are able to find typical user groups with quite specific information needs, who would find the specialized web portal very useful. This is because such kind of portal could offer them "everything at once and at...

Expert systems utilization in knowledge management

V. Vostrovský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):451-455 | DOI: 10.17221/5050-AGRICECON  

Knowledge and information are the key to successful pursuit of business activity. For the management knowledge, there can be employed among others the expert systems and eLearning. The article provides the expert systems utilization in knowledge management as the expert eLearning component. This solution then makes it possible to preserve the appropriate set of knowledge for a given business activity in knowledge bases and to pass this knowledge in the moment of need in the form of multimedia teaching applications to the appropriate employees.

Toward efficient modeling of fuzzy expert systems: a survey

S. Aly, I. Vrana

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):456-460 | DOI: 10.17221/5051-AGRICECON  

Efficient modeling of the artificial intelligence tools has become a necessity in order to cut down the development and maintenance cost associated with building application systems in the business, industrial and agriculture sectors that are frequently amendable to sudden unexpected environmental and economic conditions changes. This can be accomplished through developing an efficient modeling language which exploits the beneficial features of the emerging object-oriented technology. This research is aimed at reviewing the recent scientific aspects of the research concerning conceptual modeling of fuzzy knowledge-based system, which exhibits a large...

The main elements of food policy in Hungary

I. Fehér, R. Fejős

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):461-470 | DOI: 10.17221/5052-AGRICECON  

Hungary has recently become a member of the European Economic Union (EU) and most of the economic benefits are expected to come from expanded trade with other EU nations. While some variation in agricultural policy continues to exist between EU members, all countries generally, benefit from lower tariffs and expanded trade opportunities. However, Hungary must also be able to compete on the basis of quality and price in order to maintain current domestic markets and sell more to other EU countries. In order for the Hungarian agriculture and food industry to contribute to economic development it must continue to focus on efficiency and competitiveness....

On some potential competitive advantages of the Slovak agricultural enterprises in the EU

M. Grznár, Ľ. Szabo

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):471-476 | DOI: 10.17221/5053-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with identification of some forms of potential competitive advantage that can be applied by the Slovak agrarian enterprises after the accession to the EU. The capacity of the economies of scale is being analyzed, as well as the potential of the labor productivity growth, and input management in controlling of intensification process. The paper is targeted at verifying the extent of application of competitive advantages by agrarian enterprises, and identifying the reasons of obstacles that hinder their full utilization.

The role of credit rationing in Czech agriculture - the case of large agricultural enterprises

L. Čechura

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):477-488 | DOI: 10.17221/5054-AGRICECON  

The article is concerned with the analysis of the role of credit rationing in Czech agriculture on the case of large agricultural enterprises. The part of results, first presents the author's derivation of the theoretical model (model CR-AS), which represents a good tool (approach) for the analysis of credit rationing on sector level. Second, the focus on large agricultural enterprises and relevant characteristic of agriculture ask for a small adjustment of the derived model CR-AS in the part of model application. Third, the adjusted model is expressed numerically by the employment of econometric methodology. The estimation of the model is made per...

Microfinancing: challenges and prospects. Appropriate conditions for changes from informal to formal microfinancing institutions

K. Srnec, B. Havrland

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(10):489-496 | DOI: 10.17221/5055-AGRICECON  

"The International Year of Microcredit 2005 underscores the importance of microfinance as an integral part of our collective effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Sustainable access to microfinance helps to alleviate poverty by generating income…" (Kofi Anan). One of the important factors which influence disbursement of public debts in the LDCs are Microfinancing institutions. The article characterizes the progress of discharge of bankrupt from the macroeconomic point of view, and in the situation for microfinancing industry. One of the main question is when and under what conditions it is the suitable to accelerate the transformation...