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The aim of an economy study carried out on an information system is the proportion of those costs that are essential to the continued operation of it, and at the same time the items purchased for these sums are not available from other sources or replacing them would result in the complete change of the whole system. Examining these elements during the procedure of choosing the appropriate system...
Since 1990, Swedish agriculture has stagnated in production, while the number of firms and employed persons has fallen considerably. Even other factors of production than labour and the size of the livestock have fallen somewhat. We can yet observe, that Swedish agricultural firms have become larger, regarding non-human factors. Two explanations for this are investigated: Economies of scale, defined...
After the political and economic changes of the early 1990s in Hungary, a large number of privatelyowned farms were set up, which continue to be plagued by structural and efficiency problems as well as dilemmas regarding the allocation of resources, largely due to unfounded and improvisative support policies. In Western European agricultural sectors, different forms of cooperation have been established...
The aim of the paper is to evaluate financial situation of organic farms in the Czech Republic. The financial state is evaluated according the most used and known financial indicators of profitability and stability. Organic farms are evaluated separately as corporations and individual entrepreneurs. The results show that the profitability of organic farmers is at good level, indebtedness is low and...
Recently managers considered developing information systems as a secret wonder weapon, and preferred it rather than any other investment, mostly because they could spare financial resources for it with the least effort. By now this process has lost its drive, and the computation of IT investments economic efficiency and evaluation of its returns has come to front. But IT investments have special components...
The aim of the paper is to present the findings about the trend in agricultural investments, property structure, especially long-term assets, of the agricultural enterprises between 2000 and 2005 and about the possibilities of investments financing in agriculture. An unfavourable financial situation of agricultural enterprises prevailing up to 2003 resulted in shortage of the capital resources for...
Local taxes present compulsory financial payment given by law and specified by municipality general commitment regulation used for fulfilling municipalities needs without direct admission. Profits from these taxes generate income of municipality budget. The aim of the article is to present the amount of financial resources, which agricultural farms, as representative of rural municipalities economics...
Regional development has a considerable influence on forming of economic and social constituents of public policy. Experience of European Union allows to assert about forming of economic processes due to the use of structural, regional and political factors. The use of experience of EU is able to help and accelerate motion of Ukraine in direction to the economic development of Ukraine. Ukraine is...
In the 21st century there are two extreme trends which influence agricultural raw material production: organic farming and the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Considering the development of production, these two technologies are widely different. It is not our aim in our present article to commit ourselves to one or the other technology but we would rather like to present the effect...
In Hungary the small farms play an especially important role in the horticultural sector, among others due to the formerly established market garden-farms, their part taken in the employment as well as the high production value per field unit. The main barrier to the development of small farms, enhancement of their size, updating their farming is the marketing difficulties, the lack of a steady absorbing...
In the enlarged European Union the agricultural structure are diverse in most of the member states, but they have to use the same agricultural policy, which could have different effect in the agricultural sector. It is necessary to analyze and become acquainted with the agricultural structure in the Visegrad Group to form the Common Agricultural Policy reform.
The article presents the results of research on the agrotourist entrepreneurship. Such entrepreneurship is understood, among other things, as rural service providers inclination towards self organization of agrotourist associations, willingness to cooperate with farmers running agrotourism farms, foreign language skills and intention of making use of European Union funds.
Small growers perform in fruit and vegetable sector in Lithuania, they cant compete individually. The co-operation in this sector is poor, and performing cooperatives can't significantly influence the market. There is no one PO or tentative recognised group of producers in Lithuania, though this situation makes the preconditions for co-operation development to growers. This paper helps to dispute...
The area covered by protected areas in Poland amounts to 33,1% and this figure varies as far as single regions are concerned; the region with the highest percentage of areas covered by them is in the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship 62 %. There are 72 municipalities in the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship among which in 49 protected areas cover more than the half of the area. These areas are usually landscape...
The paper considers the concept and a system approach to the formation of market infrastructure in Ukrainian agriculture. Its marketing function and organizational elements are in the focus of the study. The changes in the agrarian sector have contributed to the development new market institutions as the commodity exchanges, agrotrade houses and agribusiness cooperatives. The important task is how...
In 2004, ten new member-states accessed to the European Union (including Poland and Hungary). Since January 2007, together with entry of two further member-states, the number of EU countries risen up to 27. All Member-states characterise different state of economic development, social, political and cultural environment. In every member-state private individuals, companies and other firms have to...
The article described possibilities of social capital usage in the management functions of the agricultural enterprise. In the article there is demonstrated a layout of cybernetics model of social capital. In this model, social capital is a component of feedback information canal for management of agricultural enterprise. Mapping sources of social capital of the enterprise could suggest a specifics...
The development and introduction of the integrated quality management systems were enhanced by the fact that in the different areas of the management of the enterprise processes several common properties can be found which can be defined in the same way and are common in all management systems. Integration means incorporation of different parts into a bigger unit or whole. Nowadays, the above mentioned...
The paper is focused on analysis of economic situation on particular processing stages within the wheat commodity vertical and on its comparison with food processing industry. The Spider Analysis method is used for evaluation. The analysis has shown enhancement of milling industry position and worsening of bakery industry position in the last time and confirmed low market power of both processing...
The main objective of this article was to present the opportunities and threats development of small- and medium-sized enterprises. The survey showed that the most important internal factor having an impact on firm conditions is location close to sale markets and high quality of products and services. According to entrepreneurs, market development and widening of product range are the main opportunities...
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