Agricultural Economics, 2009 (vol. 55), issue 3
Possibilities of financial health indicators used for prediction of future development of agricultural enterprises
D. Kopta
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):111-125 | DOI: 10.17221/589-AGRICECON 
The paper presents the possibilities how financial health indicators can be used both for the prediction of future value of agricultural holdings and for the prediction of the potential risk and dangers. The limited predicative ability of all indicators as compared to th recommended values is revealed in the first part of the paper. The second part of the article proves the hypothesis of the efficiency of indices in the inter-enterprise and time comparison. According to this hypothesis, holdings with a higher index value should be more successful in the following years. This part of investigation has shown the conditional efficiency of the Gurčík index...
The induced innovation test (co-integration analysis) of Iranian agriculture
F. Shirani Bidabadi, M. Hashemitabar
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):126-133 | DOI: 10.17221/588-AGRICECON
Technological change is a determinant index for agriculture that can lead to the productivity growth by either increasing the total output or increasing the usage of relatively cheap inputs and reducing the relatively expensive inputs. The determination of the magnitude and the direction of technological change in agricultural production has attracted much attention and has become the focal point of intense research efforts over the last couple decades. This topic is frequently studied in two different ways. One is considering the efforts of investment in the research and development technological change. The other is explaining the technological change...
Increasing the company's performance in knowledge society
M. Odehnalová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):134-138 | DOI: 10.17221/585-AGRICECON
The management of changes, innovations, knowledge and human resources of a company are among the crucial factors having an impact on the performance of the company. An organizational change is one of the first conditions for the successful increase in the company's performance if the system approach to the management of changes is observed. A company or its management, if it wants to be successful and to increase the company performance, must strive to change the processes, values and thinking of people, bring new innovative ideas into business and to verify them in the everyday practice. All corporate potential must be used for high-quality innovations...
Cost efficiency estimates of maize production in Nepal: a case study of the Chitwan district
P. Paudel, A. Matsuoka
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):139-148 | DOI: 10.17221/1002-AGRICECON
This study was carried out to analyze the cost efficiency of maize production in the Chitwan district, Nepal with a view to predict economic efficiencies using stochastic frontier cost function. The primary data were collected from 180 maize farmers representing 12 village development committees (VDCs) including one municipality of the district during May-June 2005 for the cropping year 2004-2005. Among various factors, use of manure accounted the highest share in the production cost followed by labour and tractor costs. The maximum-likelihood (ML) estimates of the parameters revealed that estimated coefficients of cost of tractor, animal power, labour,...
Costs related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy control in the Czech Republic in 2001-2008
R. Pospíšil
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):149-155 | DOI: 10.17221/586-AGRICECON
This paper pays attention to and analyses two of the economic impacts of the BSE occurrence in the Czech Republic, namely the financial compensations to the farmers whose herds had been affected and the costs of animal killing and carcass disposal in the rendering plant. Between February 2001 and the end of June 2008, a total of 1 263 749 cows were examined and 28 cases of the BSE were detected. Consequently, 4 022 cows in cohorts were killed and their carcasses were safely disposed of. The farmers whose herds had been affected were provided compensations for the losses suffered. The total of the compensations in this period reached CZK 198,413 thousand....
Conditions of sustainable development in the Czech Republic in compliance with the recommendation of the European Commission
M. Hrabánková, I. Boháčková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(3):156-160 | DOI: 10.17221/587-AGRICECON
The Program Period of the European Union for the years 2007-2013 is focused on the support of standardization of rural development and the creation of a space for its sustainable development. Agriculture is in the structure of production and non-production functions an important factor of social-economic development of countryside and it contributes to the increase of its growth potential. Diversification of activities in the countryside has a significant influence on the stability of settlement, the development of employment in the countryside, and the sustenance of entrepreneurial structures in rural regions.