Agricultural Economics, 2014 (vol. 60), issue 11

The position of agriculture in the Russian Federation - the last two decades development overviewOriginal Paper

Miroslav SVATOŠ, Luboš SMUTKA, Natalia ISHCHUKOVA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(11):489-502 | DOI: 10.17221/65/2014-AGRICECON  

The paper provides an analysis of the last two decades Russian agricultural sector development. The main objective of the paper is to highlight the main changes which occurred. The paper is also identifying the role of agriculture in the Russian economy and society development. On the basis of the results coming from the paper, it is possible to characterize the Russian agriculture as follows. After a significant decline in the early 90s and the long process of transformation, the Russian economy including agricultural sector is starting to recover and it is stabilizing. The slowdown of the Russian agricultural performance was stopped (the millstone...

The clustering of agricultural products and determining important countries for these clusters by the factor analysisOriginal Paper

Sabri ER, Ahmet ÖZÇELIK

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(11):503-508 | DOI: 10.17221/24/2014-AGRICECON  

In the study, some important herbal agricultural products with respect to their production have been clustered, in addition to determining the most important or the best countries in terms of the production of certain herbal agricultural products by using the factor analysis. The FAO data set has been used in obtaining production of 30 agricultural products in 86 countries. 8 factors have been achieved by considering the Eigen values the numbers of which are greater than one. Each factor contains certain herbal agricultural products. First factor explains 40.51% of the total variation whilst the last factor explains only 3.89% of the total variability....

Complete household demand system of vegetables in Ogun State, NigeriaOriginal Paper

Abiodun O. OTUNAIYA, Adebayo M. SHITTU

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(11):509-516 | DOI: 10.17221/46/2014-AGRICECON  

Fruit and vegetable consumption has been shown to be an important part of any diet leading towards good health, but little is known about the vegetable demand behaviour at finer levels of disaggregation in Nigeria. Hence, this study estimated the price and income (expenditure) elasticities of demand for the commonly consumed vegetables among households in the Ogun State, Nigeria. Data were collected with the use of a well-structured questionnaire administered to one hundred and twenty (120) households that were randomly selected using a multi-stage sampling procedure. The data were analysed by simple descriptive statistics and estimation of a Nonlinear...

Discussion with the paper 'Project costs planning in the conditions of uncertainty' by H. ŠtikováOriginal Paper

Igor KREJČÍ, Milan HOUŠKA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(11):517-523 | DOI: 10.17221/51/2014-AGRICECON  

In the paper, there is analysed one particular approach to the modelling uncertainty in the project management through an original version of the fuzzy CPM (Critical Path Method). First there is shown the relevance of using the fuzzy CPM in agriculture and the related branches and present the basics of the methods used. Then, there are described the imperfections of the work which is discussed and the impacts of the previously-published approach when applied in project management practice are emphasised. In the original paper, the author uses only the discrete fuzzy numbers for activity time durations which could be considered inappropriate for the...

Trade liberalization and state support of agriculture: effects for developing countriesScientific Information

Vasily Erokhin, Anna Ivolga, Wim Heijman

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(11):524-537 | DOI: 10.17221/137/2013-AGRICECON  

The paper aims at the overview of the main approaches of state support implemented by developed and developing countries and the assessment of their distorting influences on the trade with agricultural commodities. The current state of state support is analyzed on the examples of EU-27, the USA and Japan. The experiences of developing countries are summarized on the examples of China, Russia and the CIS countries. State support tools are grouped according to the WTO classification. The alternative classification is implemented in order to compare the distorting effects caused by the state support. The EPACIS model is implemented to analyze the effects...