Agricultural Economics, 2019 (vol. 65), issue 4

Subsidies and technical efficiency of Czech food processing industryOriginal Paper

Zdeňka Náglová, Marie Šimpachová Pechrová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(4):151-159 | DOI: 10.17221/234/2018-AGRICECON  

At present, the New Common Agricultural Policy for the period 2021-2027 has been currently formulated. Future of the agriculture and food industry is now widely discussed. These sectors play an important role, and it is necessary to maintain their competitiveness and sustainability. In this context, the main aim of the paper is to evaluate the technical efficiency of food processing firms by using Stochastic Frontier Analysis applying True Fixed Effect model on production function. It was identified, that increase of subsidies cause a slight increase in the mean of technical inefficiency. Also, the technical...

Convergence or divergence - Transition in agriculture of Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States revisitedOriginal Paper

Csaba Csaki, Attila Jambor

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(4):160-174 | DOI: 10.17221/195/2018-AGRICECON  

The agriculture of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as well as of the Soviet Union was an often studied area in the 1970´s and 1980´s among agricultural economists. After the system collapse, the transition of the agricultural sectors of these regions has gained importance. However, around the millennium, this topic was less studied. This paper aims at analysing the agricultural performance of CEE and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries between 1997 and 2016 and identifying whether the system change and transition have brought changes and convergence in agricultural productivity to...

Technical efficiency and its determinants for Czech livestock farmsOriginal Paper

Vladimír Kostlivý, Zuzana Fuksová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(4):175-184 | DOI: 10.17221/162/2018-AGRICECON  

Organic farming has become an important part of Czech agriculture. The aim of this study is an evaluation of the technical efficiency of Czech organic farms and determining the main factors, including subsidies, which affect the technical efficiency of both conventional and organic farms. The Farm Accountancy Data Network Czech Republic (FADN CR) database provides sufficient panel data for this kind of research focusing on types of farming with livestock production. The methodological tool used to achieve the aim of this paper is the parametric stochastic frontier analysis, "True" Random Effects model, supposing...

Output value and productivity of agricultural industry in Central-East EuropeOriginal Paper

J. Sándor Zsarnóczai, Zoltán Zéman

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(4):185-193 | DOI: 10.17221/128/2018-AGRICECON  

The study analyses the correlations among different economies of selected EU-12 member states based on comparison of agricultural economics variances, namely the output value of the agricultural industry, productivity of input, agricultural gross value added, subsidies on production, agricultural labour input and agricultural income per annual working unit in the period of 2010-2016, based on the Special Program for Social Sciences, as statistical methods. The EU-12 achieved a higher increase in productivity of input, output value of agricultural industry, agricultural gross valued added, as well as agricultural income per agricultural annual working...

Environmental sustainability and economic matters of commercial types of common wheatOriginal Paper

Teresina Mancuso, Tibor Verduna, Simone Blanc, Giuseppe Di Vita, Filippo Brun

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(4):194-202 | DOI: 10.17221/172/2018-AGRICECON  

Common wheat, a fundamental commodity on international markets, is increasingly differentiated into commercial types on domestic markets to meet the demand of processing companies. Improver wheat, biscuit wheat, ordinary and superior bread-making wheat are commercial varieties with specific technological characteristics. Wheat farming systems are constantly evolving, and as a result, related environmental issues emerge. We applied an LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) analysis, where the functional unit was 1 tonne of grain for each typology and system boundaries were from cradle to farm gate. Primary data were used...