Agricultural Economics, 2011 (vol. 57), issue 4
Influence of production change on return to scale
František STŘELEČEK, Radek ZDENĚK, Jana LOSOSOVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):159-168 | DOI: 10.17221/93/2010-AGRICECON 
The paper deals with an assessment of cost efficiency of farms in 2006-2009 based on a sample of farms classified according to the cost/revenue ratio. The analysis of the sample of 101 farms revealed that the return to scale effect is not significant compared to other effects so that the real increase of the production volume may not determine the dynamic of the profit. The massive shift of farms with increasing cost efficiency to the category of the decreased cost efficiency reflects a significant influence of external conditions to the profit/loss of farms. A positive development of prices in 2007 has influenced an increased cost efficiency of the...
Space Model in monopolistic competition - analysis of international trade
Alexandr SOUKUP, Karel ŠRÉDL
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):169-174 | DOI: 10.17221/2/2010-AGRICECON
The article is interested in firm behaviour in the conditions of monopolistic competition and it shows the possibilities of the analysis of the firm behaviour in profit maximizing using the space model created by the contemporary microeconomic theory. This form of imperfect competition is often prevailing in the real environment.
Developing countries - trends, differentiation
Vladimír JENÍČEK
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):175-184 | DOI: 10.17221/77/2010-AGRICECON
Socio-economic backwardness is usually defined by common characteristics or classification. The differences between the DMEs and DCs in the case of resources (prevalence of DCs) and in the case of outputs and performance (prevalence of DMEs) is evident. The difference in the economic level and the level of living between the DCs and DMEs had deepened during the last three decades, however, it has to be pointed out again, that this difference is increasing still more slowly what can be a presage of an approaching turn (in the sense of the possible beginning of a slow decrease of this gap). While the per capita GDP indicator is regarded as one of the...
Financial position of food industry in vojvodina during transition period
Veljko VUKOJE, Ivan DOBRENOV
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):185-198 | DOI: 10.17221/99/2010-AGRICECON
The paper analyzes the main indicators of the economic position of companies in the field of food industry in Vojvodina. The examined nine-year period coincides with the final stage of the ownership transformation in the Republic of Serbia. Given the length of the examined period, a considerable devaluation of the national currency (60.6%) and a high inflation rate (125.7%), all values are shown in Euros. The increasing business activity in the period of interest is not accompanied by the appropriate financial effects. Food industry enterprises achieved a positive financial result for most of the years in the given period, but with modest profit rates...
Purposefulness of more intensive supporting milk production in conditions of dispersed agriculture of southern Poland
Jerzy Cieślik, Elżbieta Badach, Andrzej Krasnodębski
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):199-202 | DOI: 10.17221/33/2010-AGRICECON
A disadvantageous tendency of resigning from milk production by small and medium sized farms has been observed in the recent years in the provinces of Southern Poland. It results from the low profitability of milk production on these farms and therefore the difficulties in reaching the income parity. It leads to a decline in the bovine population not compensated by an increase in the yield per animal and it poses a serious hazard to protecting the natural resources which is the function dairy farms perform in this region. The problem is serious since in the analyzed region, milk is acquired from 75% of farms keeping herds of up to 10 cows. Moreover,...
Factors influencing the economics of the pork meat production
Jovan BABOVIĆ, Marko CARIĆ, Dragomir DJORDJEVIĆ, Stevo LAZIĆ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):203-209 | DOI: 10.17221/12/2010-AGRICECON
The research of the influence of the relevant factors and their interrelations on the economics of the pork meat production on a farm has been carried out with the help of the method of production functions (factor - product and factor - factor). The influence of the weight of an animal on the daily growth tells us that the growth is increased with the increase of the entry weight to 19 kg and with the exit weight of the fattened animal of 100 kg . The growth is decreased over these weights. The relationship between the daily growth and the feed costs by a feeding day shows us the tendency of the increase of a daily growth with the increase of the...