Energy analysis of farms - methodical approach

The objective of the contribution, which is based on the research of National agency for agricultural research (NAZV QH 71016) carried out between 2007 and 2010, is to present research concept of energy and economic analysis of farms. The core idea behind the concept rests in a need to assess an enterprise and its result using multicriterial evaluation. Global research objective is to evaluate economic and energy efficiency and their relation. Beside that it aims on the identifying the factors which account for variability in energy and economic efficiency. The specific method for energy analysis of farms created by PLANETE group is presented in more details. The method will be empirically verified on a set of Czech farms in 2008 - 2009.