Agricultural Economics, 2010 (vol. 56), issue 1

World population - development, transition

Vladimír JENÍČEK

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(1):1-15 | DOI: 10.17221/92/2009-AGRICECON  

The accelerated population growth is a very important problem of the present civilisation. The humankind started to realise the importance of the problem already at the beginning of 60s when the demographic development begun to show the unprecedented scope. The notion "population problem" became the topic of many discussions. Gradually, all states of the developing countries started to apply the natality regulation strategy. The forcible methods applied in China and India cannot be accepted as they do not fulfil the human approach demands. The most important prerequisite of the gradual population stabilisation is the attitude of the families themselves....

Economic performance differentiation of the processing stage within the commodity chain

Ivana BLAŽKOVÁ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(1):16-24 | DOI: 10.17221/53/2009-AGRICECON  

The article is focused on the evaluation of economic differentiation of subjects on particular processing stages within the wheat commodity chain in the Czech Republic with regard to agro-food market development in the last years. The analysis is based on the statement that better economic results of businesses can be achieved not only by successful business strategy or quality management and employees but also by business ability to advance its own interests and to influence market conditions, such as setting higher prices, pressure on lower input prices, better position for negotiations with business partners etc. The Spider Analysis was used for...

Types of agricultural enterprises in the high production region in Slovakia (sample area of the Nitra district)

Jana NÉMETHOVÁ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(1):25-31 | DOI: 10.17221/61/2009-AGRICECON  

: First part of the paper assesses the physical-geographical locality factors of the agricultural production in the district of Nitra. Agricultural production in a typical high production region has been analysed (structure of the enterprises legal forms, focus of production, number of employees). The second part examines the types of the most important agricultural enterprises according to the selected economic indicators such as economic efficiency, labour productivity and relative employment. These indicators are the best ones to express the economic power of agricultural entities and farming efficiency.

Determinants of agricultural chemical price in China's export-oriented vegetable production area

Zhigang WANG, Shi ZHENG, H. Holly WANG, S. LIANG

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(1):32-42 | DOI: 10.17221/1/2009-AGRICECON  

Agricultural chemicals may have an adverse impact on environment and food safety. The demand prices of such chemicals reveal farmers' willingness to pay and their preferences. This article examines the determinants of the agricultural chemicals price in the export-oriented vegetable production area, Anqiu, Shandong Province, applying the Hedonic Price Model based on the spatial econometric technique to analyze the price. We find that the agricultural chemicals with a different shape and function have different equilibrium prices, and the chemical attributes of permeability, rainfastness, being a substitute of the highly poisonous chemical, having a...

Efficiency of date marketing system in Sistan & Bluchestan of Iran; a marketing margin approach

Mojtaba ABASSIAN, Farhad SHIRANI BIDABADI, Hussein EBRAHIMZADEH

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(1):43-50 | DOI: 10.17221/7/2009-AGRICECON  

As Sistan and Blouchistan province is one of the most important date producers in Iran, an attempt is made to estimate the economic function of factors affecting the date marketing margin in the province. The data required in this research have been collected through the field survey and document analysis. The results of the estimation of marketing margin functions was obtained through utilizing of the combination of models including the Price Increase Model, Relative Price and Marketing Margin. The data analysis indicates that the farm-gate price and the harvest margin of dates are among the highly influential factors on the entire marketing margin....