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In the paper the main change in the brewery sector have been presented. It connected with production, price and cosumtions. More precise the situatin in Hungary was showed. The Authors stated that the process of concentration was ended and the economic situation of the brewewry sector are growing.
The European Union is supporting bioethanol which has an impact on the cereal sector. In consequence this type of fuel is made from cereals in the EU. As a result the competition is increasing in the sector for the limited field resources among the food supply, forage and biofuel.
The study aims to summarize and characterize those processes which are currently going on in the Hungarian agriculture following its accession to the European Union. All these processes cannot be separated from the international tendencies and have impact on the relations between the member states. The role of agriculture is relatively small in the economy, but despite the decreasing tendency, agriculture...
In theory, market orientation and agricultural reforms in Ukraine should have led to increase in agricultural efficiency and productivity, and, as a result, to increase in production volumes. However, volumes of agricultural production decreased gradually. Therefore, the market mechanism did not produce the expected results, and that's why there is a question whether the transfer to private property...
The work aimed at determining relationships between an assessment made by entrepreneurs of an effect of competitive firms on economic activity and success factors as well as the factors that hinder starting up and running a firm. The study included 137 entrepreneurs conducting economic activity in urban-rural gminas (communes) of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship. Analysis of empirical material was...
Competition policy in financing human capital development in rural areas should be considered in long term, and should base on the interdisciplinary research results that would refer to the field of political economics. Of special importance as such a basis are these research results that forecast the development trends in the second and the third decade of twenty first century.
With a view of strengthening health of the person the food industry starts to be reoriented on manufacture of functional food stuffs with the additional maintenance of valuable food substances. Worldwide demand for such production has sharply raise. Application of a new bioactive preparation on the basis of iron and selenium nanopowders for processing vegetative raw materials in manufacture of functional...
Sustainable development in agriculture is associated with multifunction conception and environment and nature protection. Application of sensible methods of farming as good agriculture practices (GAP) and good environment practices may significantly support competitiveness in agribusiness. This application can be system ensuring by some certificated standard e.g. standard GLOBALGAP. The standard has...
The study at hand examines the assumption about the influence on the welfare situation of a particular commune that is carried out by the dynamics of NGO's activity of its territory. A statistical data set from about 1000 communes in Poland has been employed. Research method involves a Data Envelopment Analysis estimation of efficiency frontier. The results of efficiency measurement in the communes...
The paper deals with contractual relationships within the commodity verticals. The first part of the paper qualifies theoretical considerations - the alternatives of contractual relationships in commodity chains in general. Problems of contracts and cooperation after transition in the Czech Republic are characterized in the second part of the paper. The methods of contracting are shown on the example...
In the paper there is demonstrated the impact of the selection of training sample on misclassification error for the case of a real database describing the food market. The methodological background is a decision tree algorithm as it is applied with different rules and parameters (e.g. varying stopping rules and sample sizes). The goodness of the model fit is analysed.
A number of governments support their fanning sector by providing various forms of assistance. Many countries maintain publicly funded research institutions aimed at the development of agricultural technology. Past studies examined the benefits from the development and commercialization of agricultural and food technology. In general, although the immediate benefits occur to the early adopters (i...
I have made examinations for the period of 1989-2005 in order to give an overall evaluation on the profitability questions of agriculture in the European Union. It was a priority during the research to evaluate the situation of the Hungarian farms. It was explored that the average profitability of farms increased dynamically in the 12/15 EU countries during the examined period. It Was proved that...
The panel of financial data from the biggest milling companies in Poland is used in the article. In the polish milling branch there is a lot of factors which exert influence on the productivity change of the companies, This factors are mentioned in the article. The approach which was used in the article is the DEA-based Malmquist productivity index. The index is a useful tool in economics. It can...
The aim of this paper is to propose a discussion about nano economy - as a theory of the smallest part of economy i.e. the range connected with economic purpose and results of individual decisions in individual enterprises. A set of different decisions derived from all ways of rational managing principle, which should improve the competitiveness and/or enlarge the financial outcome of a given economic...
The increasing size and specialization of hog operations reflect structural change in U.S. swine production during the past 15 years. The number of farms with hogs has declined by over 70 percent, as hog enterprises have grown larger. Operations producing under contract are larger than independent operations and are more likely to specialize in a single phase of production. These structural changes...
The subject of the study is the problem of formation of a high population density area around Warsaw. Such areas, referred to as "Speckguertel" in the German literature (bacon belt), have a strong influence both on the development of the cities around which they form and on areas further away. Since this influence may be both positive and negative it is important to manage the spatial development...
This paper presents research findings on investigating the factors affecting market value of agricultural land in Hungary by empirical data collection and applying regression analysis.
Rural tourism, agritourism in particular, has been seen as an important and real way to improve economic and social situation of rural areas. Tourism services provide non-agricultural jobs and income brought to those areas by the urban dwellers. Growing number of agritourism farms, especially in the south-eastern part of Poland, increases needs for competitive advantages, to attract potential tourists...
Customer satisfaction and the importance of managing relationships come into prominence more and more in agriculture, too. Its importance is true for both profitability and the reduction of risks as well. Nowadays, on the one hand agriculture can be characterized by the customers' increasing pretension which implies a higher-level customer service as an obvious requirement, and the attraction of valuable...
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