Agricultural Economics, 2016 (vol. 62), issue 6

Improving agricultural performance for the working poverty reduction in the European UnionOriginal Paper

Emilia HERMAN

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(6):247-259 | DOI: 10.17221/127/2015-AGRICECON  

The main objective of the paper is to highlight the impact of agricultural performance on working poverty in the EU countries, in the 2008-2013 period, for identifying some measures that need to be taken to increase the agricultural performance so that the in-work poverty reduces. The comparative analysis shows that agricultural performance, according to the agricultural indicators analysed and the phenomenon of working poverty vary significantly across the EU countries. The correlation and regression analysis results suggest that the high level of employment in agriculture in some EU countries can be mainly explained by the small scale agriculture,...

Peripheral innovation systems in the Czech Republic at the level of the NUTS3 regionsOriginal Paper

Vladimir ZITEK, Viktorie KLIMOVA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(6):260-268 | DOI: 10.17221/170/2015-AGRICECON  

Innovation is considered the main factor of social and economic development and the source of competitiveness of regions and countries. The research into innovation systems concentrates on innovative regions mainly and these are especially the metropolitan and urban areas. By contrast, a small attention is devoted to the innovation development in the peripheral or rural regions. The aim of the paper is to apply the theory of the regional innovation systems typology and to find relevant indicators that can be used as a basis for the determination of the peripheral regional innovation systems at the level of Czech regions. Applying the point method and...

Profitability development of Czech dairy farmsOriginal Paper

Zdenka ZAKOVA KROUPOVA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(6):269-279 | DOI: 10.17221/131/2015-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with the development and main determinants of the profitability of Czech dairy farms. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the differences in the dynamics of profitability for two types of milk producers - specialized dairy farms and mixed farms - within the context of the agricultural policy changes. This aim is achieved by decomposing profitability into output growth, output and input price changes, changes in decoupled subsidies, technical change, scale, mark-up, and technical efficiency change components based on input distance function estimation. Based on the panel data obtained from the FADN database in the time period 2004-2011,...

Country and industry specific determinants of intra-industry agri-food trade in the Baltic CountriesOriginal Paper

Attila JAMBOR, Jeremias BALOGH, Peter KUCSERA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(6):280-291 | DOI: 10.17221/153/2015-AGRICECON  

The article analyses the country and industry specific determinants of the horizontal and vertical intra-industry agri-food trade between the Baltic Countries and the European Union in 1999-2013. Results obtained by the GMM panel model estimations suggest that distance is negatively related to IIT, implying that geographical distance is an obstacle for intra-industry agri-food trade. Moreover, factor endowments are ambiguously related to IIT as land is found to be negatively, while labour and machinery to be positively related to both sides of the IIT. Results also show that product differentiation fosters two way trade of the quality-differentiated...

Factors of profitability of the grapes productionOriginal Paper

Pavel TOMSIK, Hana STOJANOVA, Jiri SEDLO, Ida VAJCNEROVA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(6):292-297 | DOI: 10.17221/258/2015-AGRICECON  

The paper analyses the relationships between the profitability of viticulture on the one hand and the sugar content and grapes yield in viticulture in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2014 on the other hand. The paper aims to find out which of these has had a greater impact on the viticulture profitability in the Czech Republic over the last twenty years. One of the frequently debated questions is whether a higher yield of grapes may also bring a high or moderately above average sugar content, and also whether the production for sale is profitable. The answer can be achieved either via the micro-appraisal (repeatable and many times conducted experiments)...