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Return on equity is among the basic ratio of economic benefit for enterprise owners. It must be generated as a fundamental condition for the continuous operation and development of an enterprise, regardless of the type of business. The main purpose of this paper was to identify the strength and direction of impact of selected determinants behind financial profitability of animal feed producers. The...
The modern food retail trade means a concentrated and overstocked market in developed countries as well as in many developing countries. Joining the food chains of the “modern retail trade” often poses a problem for small-sized agricultural producers, which decreases their market opportunities. Trading in short supply chains is an option for producers to reach markets and increase incomes. The object...
The paper examines the impact of trust in an agricultural marketing cooperative. The aim is to explore how the trust among members and between members and management affect the commitment of members towards the cooperative (group cohesion) and their satisfaction with the cooperative. Trust is examined from two dimensions: cognitive and affective. Our results have clearly proved that trust has a positive...
The paper examined how the farm management support provided by public extension to mitigate the effects of climate variability influences farmers’ production, and whether this support considers farmers’ capital assets. Both probability and non-probability sampling procedures were used to select districts, municipalities and farmers from 20 villages of Limpopo province, South Africa in January, 2014...
The paper examines factors affecting trust among the Hungarian agricultural producers. Our research has focused on the role of two factors on the basis of the widely referred trust model: faith in loyalty and faith in capability. The empirical results clearly confirm the hypothesis of the theoretical model, which states that partners will trust each other if their faith is high both in loyalty and...
Agriculture is one of the most important sphere in the world. It’s development is a key question for all countries. Ukraine takes significant part on agricultural markets and has a big potential for future development. In last times, Ukraine is growing its export of agricultural products to the EU-countries. On the world food markets its plant and animal products are taking leading positions and are...
The aim of the article was to compare the application of marketing communication tools used by organic food producers in Slovakia and Austria. Additionally, we were interested in the opinions of producers about customers, the differences between organic markets in Slovakia and Austria, and the barriers and opportunities to improve marketing communication in the organic food market. The survey was...
The issue of investment decision making has been described extensively in the literature. The article uses classical evaluation methods to assess two investment options for the treatment of brewers' grains as waste (resp. byproducts). As indicated by the results of the analysis, the considered production of brewers' grains for energy is more economically preferable than selling it.
Article’s goal: to identify and carry out a comparative analysis of the changes that occurred in opinions and attitudes of Polish final customers towards unfair activities addressed to them by food producers in the years 2010-2012. Those activities were divided into 3 groups: related to the product, its packaging and advertising. Research approach: striving to achieve the main goal, the author used...
In our study, by simulating the model of an apple producing firm, we investigated how the availability of postharvest establishments influences the economic efficiency of production. The results of our analysis highlighted the fact that by possessing cold storage and introducing an extended selling period, a producing enterprise may make higher profits (NPV) of 40 to 50% during the lifetime of the...
Agricultural insurance is one of the possible measures to meet the risks that may occur because of the natural disasters and to ensure continuity of production in agricultural sector. This study was conducted to evaluating the results of government supported crop insurance (GSCIS) policies in terms of the apple producers and to determine characteristics of both farms participating and non-participating...
The main objective of this study was to determine the factors affecting the government supported bumble bees use as pollinators by greenhouse producers in the Mediterranean Coastal Region of Turkey. The data used in this study were collected from growers by using a face to face survey. To this end, data was obtained by using simple random sampling method in 80 greenhouse farms in Antalya province...
The aim of this study was to assess the financial situation of enterprises producing feeds, focusing on the potential risk of bankruptcy. Selected Polish models of discriminant analysis were used for the assessment of the financial condition of enterprises. Studies have shown that between the years 2006 to 2011, Cargill Polska, De Heus and Polmass had a good financial situation. The situation of PPUH...
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