Agricultural Economics, 2019 (vol. 65), issue 12

The challenge of Euro-Mediterranean integration for Campania agribusiness sustainabilityOriginal Paper

Debora Scarpato, Mariarosaria Simeone, Giacomo Rotondo

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(12):539-549 | DOI: 10.17221/18/2019-AGRICECON  

This work aims to investigate whether and for which products the Campania region, as compared to other Italian regions, has managed to exploit the opportunities resulting from the gradual opening of MTC (Mediterranean third countries) markets which took place following the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Barcelona. The results obtained through the use of a relative specialisation index show that Campania, compared to other Italian regions, enjoys a competitive advantage resulting from relative specialisation in the sale of processed and preserved fruit and vegetables and of bakery and flour products on...

Potential and competitiveness of EU countries in terms of slaughter livestock productionOriginal Paper

Agnieszka Tłuczak

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(12):550-559 | DOI: 10.17221/156/2019-AGRICECON  

Models and methods of spatial econometrics are gaining more and more popularity. Their advantage is the opportunity to examine the interrelationships between individual territorial units. These methods, apart from the own potential of the region, take into account the impact of neighbouring objects and location in space. The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between the potential and the level of competitiveness of individual European Union countries in the field of slaughter cattle production. In addition, the paper attempts to determine the specialisation of individual EU countries in the production...

Consumption of food in relation to income and saturation limit of Slovak householdsOriginal Paper

Ľubica Kubicová, Zdenka Kádeková, Natália Turčeková, Peter Bielik

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(12):560-568 | DOI: 10.17221/94/2019-AGRICECON  

Food represents everyday need and from this point of view is stable and computable demand on the consumer market. Based on the current development of households' net money income and consumption expenditures, the aim of the paper is to point at the development of food consumption and changes in the cost of living of the population in Slovakia. Previous food consumption analyses proved that eating habits of the Slovak population comply neither with healthy lifestyle nor recommended doses, due to the low level of disposable net money income. In the analysis, linear and nonlinear functions were used in order to...

Optimal treatment of agricultural land - special multi-depot vehicle routing problemOriginal Paper

Bisera Andric Gusavac, Milan Stanojevic, Mirjana Cangalovic

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(12):569-578 | DOI: 10.17221/134/2019-AGRICECON  

This paper describes a problem of optimal agricultural land treatment using aviation. The studied problem consists of determining the optimal routes for a given set of aircraft used for chemical treatment of arable agricultural land divided into parcels. This NP (nondeterministic polynomial time) problem is represented on a graph and a mixed integer mathematical programming model of the problem is formulated. This mathematical model is a specific variant of the multi-depot vehicle routing problem where a min-cost plan for the transportation of a homogeneous product (chemicals used for land treatment) from different...

Impact of conversion from rice farms to oil palm plantations on socio-economic aspects of ex-migrants in IndonesiaOriginal Paper

Imron Zahri, Elisa Wildayana, Agus Thony Ak, Dessy Adriani, M. Umar Harun

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(12):579-586 | DOI: 10.17221/349/2018-AGRICECON  

This paper aims to investigate the impact of land conversion from rice farming to oil palm plantations on the socio-economic aspects of ex-migrants in the South Sumatra tidal swamp, Indonesia. Land conversion from rice farming to oil palm plantations is a form of adaptation for ex-migrant farmers and will increase food deficits in Indonesia. Ex-migrant farmers initially cultivated food crops with conventional technology. This pattern has been changing, which have led to the formation of two large groups of farms, namely rice-based farms implementing mechanisation, and oil palm-based plantations. The results showed that changes from rice farming to...