Agricultural Economics, 2021 (vol. 67), issue 4

Income situation of agricultural households of EU countriesOriginal Paper

Irena Antošová, Naďa Hazuchová, Jana Stávková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2021, 67(4):121-128 | DOI: 10.17221/474/2020-AGRICECON  

One of objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy is to ensure an appropriate living standard for agricultural households. The paper uses EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to assess the income situation and living conditions of agricultural households. The agricultural household income does not reach the average household income in any of the EU countries. Multidimensional cluster analysis is applied to classify EU countries according to the income situation of agricultural households. The cluster analysis revealed five segments and the fact that living conditions at a satisfactory level can be achieved irrespective of...

Moving toward the north? The spatial shift of olive groves in ItalyOriginal Paper

Filippo Gambella, Leonardo Bianchini, Massimo Cecchini, Gianluca Egidi, Agostino Ferrara, Luca Salvati, Andrea Colantoni, Donato Morea

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2021, 67(4):129-135 | DOI: 10.17221/467/2020-AGRICECON  

Southern Europe is becoming a hotspot for climate change. Appropriate mechanisation is necessary for reducing soil compacting in such contexts. The olive tree distribution - a typical Mediterranean crop - showed a well-defined latitude gradient with progressive decline moving towards the north. Climate change, however, has supposed to cause a significant shift towards the north in the geographical range of olive trees. Our study analyses the spatial distribution of the olive tree area in Italy, a region within the species' ecological range apart from the Northern region, which is now becoming progressively specialised in this crop because of local...

New dimension of logistics innovations development in agricultural enterprises in SlovakiaOriginal Paper

Ľuboslav Szabo, Patrik Richnák, Klaudia Gubová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2021, 67(4):136-143 | DOI: 10.17221/444/2020-AGRICECON  

The research article's primary aim was to provide a comprehensive and systematic view of a new dimension of logistics in the form of logistics innovations in agricultural enterprises in Slovakia. The intention thereof was to define and then analyse selected logistics innovations in agricultural enterprises. The research object was formed by 95 agricultural enterprises in Slovakia. A questionnaire was used as the research instrument. MS Excel and IBM SPSS Statistics 20 were used to process the data in the questionnaire. The univariate descriptive statistics and multivariate descriptive statistics were used to interpret the data. The research results...

Implementing selected strategic documents focused on increasing efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural enterprises in the Czech RepublicOriginal Paper

Hana Urbancová, Pavla Vrabcová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2021, 67(4):144-151 | DOI: 10.17221/381/2020-AGRICECON  

Strategic documents are considered the basic tools for managing and coordinating any company's development, setting the basic development directions and goals that the company wants to achieve and the ways to achieve them. It is always necessary to reconcile the diverse interests of interest groups in relation to the development of a given enterprise to make efficient use of resources and opportunities, as far as possible without conflicts. The classification, meaning, and contents of companies' strategic documents are most often based on their established practice. The article's main goal is to identify the level of implementation of a group of implemented...

Measurement of technical efficiency in the case of heterogeneity of technologies used between firms - Based on evidence from Polish crop farmsOriginal Paper

Jerzy Marzec, Andrzej Pisulewski

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2021, 67(4):152-161 | DOI: 10.17221/347/2020-AGRICECON  

In the present study, we have investigated several competing stochastic frontier models which differ in terms of the form of the production function (Cobb-Douglas or translog), inefficiency distribution (half-normal or exponential distribution) and type of prior distribution for the parameters (hierarchical or non-hierarchical from the Bayesian point of view). This last distinction corresponds to a difference between random coefficients and fixed coefficients models. Consequently, this study aims to examine to what extent inferences about estimates of farms' efficiency depend on the above assumptions. Moreover, the study intends to investigate how...