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Land Improvements Under Land Tenure Insecurity: The Case of Liming in Finland

Myyra, Sami; Pietola, Kyosti - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This article solves and characterizes optimal decision rules to invest in irreversible land improvements conditional on land tenure insecurity. Economic model is a normative dynamic programming model with known parameters for the one period returns and transition equations. The optimal decision...

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Commercialization and Subsistence in Transaction Agriculture: Empirical Evidence from Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

Mathijs, Erik; Noev, Nivelin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

Present-day Central and Eastern European agriculture is characterized by a high incidence of small-scale farmers who are not producing for the market. This paper uses household level data from comparative farm surveys in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to analyze which farm household...

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The Structure of Individual (Family) Farms in Hungary

Szep, Katalin; Burger, Anna - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and interviews. The 613 farms included in the survey were situated in 3 counties in the Southern Great Plain of Hungary and in 3 counties of the Western part of the country...

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Profitability prediction model for dairy farms using the random forest method

Yli-Heikkilä, Maria; Tauriainen, Jukka - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

predict the profitability ratio of dairy farms based on financial and production related variables. The predictive model was … implemented as a web service to enable farmers to calculate the profitability of their business. Hereby, farmers can better assess …

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THE ECONOMICS OF MILK PRODUCTION IN THE CZECH TRANSITION AGRICULTURE

Kopecek, Petr; Kopp, Ondrej; Schmidtova, Barbora - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

The paper examines the development of the Czech transition agriculture through profitability without supports (R-S) and … profitability with supports (R+S) of the dairy breeding, resp. milk production on the period 2002 – 2011. For this particular branch … from the pure national (Czech) agrarian policy into the European CAP. There was proved that profitability R+S in the pre …

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FARM STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVENESS IN AGRICULTURE

Toth, Orsolya - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

competitiveness are significant concepts which could be measured by the profitability of the agricultural holdings. It is very …

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The Competitiveness of the Greek Μeat Ρrocessing Εnterprises

Konstantinidis, Christos - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

structure of the entire industry. Competitiveness will be measured following traditional approaches where profitability and … correlation between profitability and market share. Moreover the way which other factors affect profitability and market share is …

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Food chains and value system: the case of potato, fruit, and cheese

Bertazzoli, Aldo; Fiorini, A.; Ghelfi, Rino; Rivaroli, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The aim of the paper is to analyse patterns of value system sharing along food chains, so to explore the agro-food enterprises capacity to be competitive and sustainable. The research focused on three food chains: potato, fruit, and Grana cheese of Emilia Romagna region. The paper adopts the...

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Variations in Farm Performance: Evidence from the CEECs and Existing EU Member States

Davidova, Sophia; Gorton, Matthew; Ratinger, Tomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

compare the findings from the CEECs with the EU situation. Utilising farm survey data, ratios of agricultural profitability … profitability. The poor profitability and structural problems of Polish agriculture are highlighted. The family farms are less …

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Profitability of and Reasons for Adopting Automatic Milking Systems

Latvala, Terhi; Pyykkonen, Perttu - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

decrease in labour costs in automatic milking. In terms of economic profitability, the net profit in AM-system remains above …

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