to work both in online and off-line modes. The access via a web browser will require a permanent connection. The proposed … information sources when rural areas are not adequately covered with a high-speed wireless connection to the Internet, in contrast …

received only limited attention in the Czech economic literature. The objective of this paper is to assess economic effects of … hereoscedasticity. We show significant benefits of the investment support in terms of business expansion (represented by Gross value … benefits are higher on farms in less favoured areas and on medium-size farms in both the absolute and relative terms …

Special attention has been given to untie the constraints of Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia for they are … important vehicles to address the challenges of unemployment, economic growth and equity in the country. The government is … implementing different support service programs, in the forms of financial and business development, in different parts of the …

Nigeria is a major importer of rice in the world with over 756 million USD annual expenditure on rice importation. This … efficiency in rice production in Ogun State, Nigeria. A three-stage sampling technique was used to select a total of 120 rice … systems account for 80.5% (coefficient of multiple determination, R2) of the changes in rice production, the study revealed …

The paper deals with assessment of the economic situation of Czech farms and its development in a long time- line. The … analysis is based on our own database of farms in a sample of farms classified by LFA, production type and size. An increase of … production is mainly caused by an increase in crop production revenues, animal and non-agricultural production revenues are …

beef meat agri-food chains in the Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the law of one price holds at … Vector error correction model (VECM). The analysis is based on time series of wholesale price in individual regions of the … Czech Republic which contain bi-weekly data in period from May 2004 to June 2011. The analysis shows that the law of one …

in solving spatial problems. Spatial problems accompany every human activity, of which agriculture is no exception. The … solutions to these problems requires the application of available knowledge in the relevant decision-making processes. GISs …

Costing). The paper described the application of the ABC design method in Microsoft Excel applicable in the agricultural … approach in the overheads management, so it can be used by using quite common user knowledge of Microsoft Excel. …

sharing by Cypriot farmers. In particular, a project at the Agricultural Research Institute is underway, to survey methods … available sources of information, and to suggest how ICT tools can be applied to help in transferring agricultural knowledge to … farmers who live and work in rural and remote areas. The results showed that nearly 98% of the farmers in Cyprus use the …

The main objective of this paper is to illuminate the relatively little-known process of collectivisation in Soviet … the changes in the social structure of the village, or especially the real intentions of the communists. Any manipulative … ideological influence on the countryside is very harmful in its effect, and the consequences are difficult to remove even after a …