The purpose of the article was comparing diverse resources of production factors in farming and displaying relations between them, as well as the effectiveness of their exploitation in agricultural regions of the European Union (EU-25). An average arable farm was analyzed in 122 regions,...

The importance of evaluating different impacts of the EU accession has not decreased in the last decade. Some of the problems, such as the problems of competitiveness and effectiveness of the agricultural sector, or the delay in transformation of the payment scheme are still unsolved. The...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

Within the framework of the paper, the supply chain participants of meat products were identified and analyzed in terms of the structure. The assessment of the efficiency of meat processing enterprises, which play the role of the chain’s integrator, was carried out using the SFA method...

With the increasing competition in the global markets of agri-food products permanently sustaining the competitive potential of the EU agri-food sector becomes more and more important. The aim of the paper is to assess the competitiveness of EU agri-food sector based on the results of...

The aim of this article is to present the problems of cost competitiveness of Polish dairy farms and selected European countries. Comparisons were used to study IFCN and Agricultural Census 2010. As can be seen from the analysis, the majority of farms in Poland are uncompetitive in terms of cost...

Dairy production in Ukraine, as well as worldwide, is an important sector of the economy which ensures the food security of the country. The Ukrainian dairy sector has many unsolved systematic problems, foremost of which is the decrease in cow productivity and the number of cows. This directly...

Economical results of farms of three types of farming (TF13 – field crops, TF41 – diary farms, TF50 – grainvores livestock) in selected EU member states in 2004 were analysed basing on FADN data. The research was done for three classes of biggest economic size. Usually the bigger the...

Swine breeding is a branch of agriculture with high level of development and traditional in Belarus. The problem of basic directions in development of swine breeding is examined in the paper. In conclusion the main reserves for growth of the economic efficiency of pork production are found in...