Agricultural Economics, 2010 (vol. 56), issue 10

A multi-attribute model of Japanese consumer's purchase intention for GM foods

Renee B. KIM

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(10):449-459 | DOI: 10.17221/113/2009-AGRICECON  

This study illustrates that consumers' GM food purchase decision is determined by a set of correlated variables. The interrelationship among the GM food purchase decision determinants is examined conceptually and empirically with a multi-attribute model, describing this interrelationship. Consumers' attitudes toward subjects such as innovation, science & technology as well as their trust towards the government's regulatory system of food safety and GM food are strong indicators of the consumers' GM food purchase decision. Given the limited availability of GM foods in the market which leads to a lack of understanding and experience of GM foods,...

Attitudes of the Portuguese farmers to the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Maria José Palma Lampreia DOS SANTOS, Pedro Damião De Sousa HENRIQUES, Rui Manuel De Sousa FRAGOSO, Maria Leonor Pimenta Verdete DA SILVA CARVALHO

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(10):460-469 | DOI: 10.17221/123/2009-AGRICECON  

The main purpose of this paper aims to know the farmer's attitudes towards the agricultural production, the political support, and the irrigation project of Alqueva in the context of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform, the Health-Check, in a micro-region located near the Mediterranean Sea. For this purpose, we use the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The main results suggest that the majority of farmers are a relatively homogeneous cluster about their attitudes but not in their behavioural intentions. These farmers still maintain a productivist mindset, wish to maintain an agricultural focus and strongly reject the notions of policy...

Consumer attitudes to the temperate zone fruit and its consumption in the Slovak Republic: Case study from the Nitra region

Zuzana LUŠŇÁKOVÁ, Mária ŠAJBIDOROVÁ, Jarmila HORVÁTHOVÁ, Jozef LUŠŇÁK

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(10):470-477 | DOI: 10.17221/116/2009-AGRICECON  

The fruit consumption in the Slovak Republic rates below the European average. There are several reasons causing this situation: the financial situation of the inhabitants, high prices of the temperate zone fruit in shops and the unhealthy eating habits of the consumers. The expenses on fruit have been decreasing within the consumer basket in our country. The consumption of fruit and the fruit products (in the value of fresh fruit) rose in 2006 in comparison with 2005 and achieved 54.0 kg per capita. The increase of fruit consumption was recorded thanks to the growth of the fruit containing products. Despite the rising tendency of the fruit consumption...

Agrifood cluster and transfer of technology in the Spanish vegetables exporting sector: the role of multinational enterprises

Juan C. PÉREZ-MESA, Emilio GALDEANO-GÓMEZ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(10):478-488 | DOI: 10.17221/111/2009-AGRICECON  

Several studies have analyzed the spread of technology by the multinational enterprises. The conclusions obtained are unsettling. Multinationals benefit more from the local branches in terms of knowledge than what they contribute. In the agro-industrial business cluster, multinationals are present as supply companies (e.g. seeds and machinery). However, they also play an important role because, in most cases, they constitute the company demand (retail distribution chain). In this context, this study intends to verify whether multinationals, by means of these two forms of interaction, encourage the use of generic technology, acting as a vector (carrier)...

Economic analysis of different laying hen farm capacities in Turkey

Vecdi DEMIRCAN, Hasan YILMAZ, Zeynep DERNEK, Tufan BAL, Mevlüt GÜL, Hayati KOKNAROGLU

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(10):489-497 | DOI: 10.17221/32/2009-AGRICECON  

In this study, different capacity laying hen farms in Afyon province, which are of a considerable importance in the laying hen farming in Turkey, were compared in the terms of performance, including feed consumption, production cost and profitability per chick and egg and the most profitable farm size was determined. Data were obtained by conducting a questionnaire research with 75 farmers. Laying hen farms were divided into three groups according to their sizes and were analyzed accordingly. It was found that higher capacity farms had a higher egg yield and a better feed efficiency. It was also found that farms with a higher capacity were advantageous...