Agricultural Economics, 2010 (vol. 56), issue 9

Analysis of the exploitation of information and communication technologies in the agri-food sector companies

Klára HENNYEYOVÁ, Peter DEPEŠ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(9):403-408 | DOI: 10.17221/100/2009-AGRICECON  

Information and communication technologies are an essential source of success in the current information society. Effective exploitation of ICT requires expert knowledge in the areas of hardware, software, IT marketing and IT security. If the company does not want to be out of step with competition and information progress as well, it must react flexibly to the changes in the IT market. The aim of this article is to review the exploitation of information and communication technologies in agri-food sector companies and to find the appropriate combination of various ICT elements that their use will be effective in carrying out business activities...

Empirical research on farm households' attitude and behaviour for cultivated land transferring and it's influencing factors in China

Mei-qiu CHEN, Tai-yang ZHONG, Bing-juan ZHOU, Hong-sheng HUANG, Wei-jia HE

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(9):409-420 | DOI: 10.17221/93/2009-AGRICECON  

Cultivated land transfer is an important way to deal with the conflict between the cultivated land fragmentation of landholders and the large-scale agricultural modernization in China. The farm households, as the direct user of cultivated land, play a key role in the cultivated land transfer. For this paper, a survey of 1 396 farm households in 74 villages, 64 townships, 42 counties in Jiangxi, the traditional agricultural province, was conducted. Using this information, a logistic regression model was employed and the attitudes of those farm households were analyzed using the family characteristics, the household economic factors and the resource...

Complete almost ideal demand system approach to the Czech alcohol demand

Karel JANDA, Jakub MIKOLÁŠEK, Martin NETUKA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(9):421-434 | DOI: 10.17221/117/2009-AGRICECON  

Tax interventions into alcohol beverages market are an important and recently discussed tool of the Czech fiscal policy. The impact of any such measure would be strongly dependent on the microeconomic behavior of the consumers. The aim of this paper is to provide a reliable set of income, own-price, and cross-price elasticities of demand for the key alcohol beverages based on the Almost Ideal Demand System model applied on the most relevant Czech data set of the Household Budget Statistics.

Supply chain analysis of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV): Prospects of contract farming

Nalini ARUMUGAM, Mohamed Arshad FATIMAH, Eddie F.C. CHIEW, Mohamed ZAINALABIDIN

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(9):435-442 | DOI: 10.17221/30/2009-AGRICECON  

The paper examines the factors that lead farmers to participate in c the contract farming in the Peninsular Malaysia. The primary data was collected through a survey using a questionnaire on the total of two hundred and eight farmers from various states in Malaysia. The study utilizes the stratified sampling method. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The survey identified forty-one contract farmers. Factor analysis was carried out to identify the factors that lead farmers to participate in the contract farming. Based on the analysis, five factors were identified as the reasons for contracting, namely, market...

Determinants of the location choices in sugar industry of Iran: using the logit & probit model

Mehdi MOGADDAM, Soleyman IRANZADEH, Hossein BEVRANI

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2010, 56(9):443-448 | DOI: 10.17221/51/2009-AGRICECON  

The main objective of this research is to offer a model for determining the most proper location for investment in sugar industry. This model classifies the possible options for investment, taking into account several variables. The orientation of this research is an applied orientation and its objective is an explorative one. Therefore, no hypothesis is proposed to prove it. The required data for determining the parameters of the model is extracted from statistical yearbooks of the Iran Ministry of Agriculture during 1996 to 2006. According to the results obtained from this research, if new investments in sugar industry are carried out based on the...