Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from the centrally planned economic system started in the early 1990âs. During this time agricultural and rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound structural changes with wide variations in the degree of...

In many ways, the Hungarian pork chain faces considerable disadvantages when compared to the situation in competing countries. In countries endowed with a modern meat chain, heavy concentration is the rule, but in Hungary decentralization still prevails, although thankfully the chain is not...

Hungary became the member of European Union in 2004. The authors want to show that, though, many sectors of Hungarian agriculture have been operating at low level of technology and efficiency; there was a big expectation about the fast catching up with accession to European Union. This paper...

Magyarországon a bárányhizlalás az utóbbi nyolc évben általában veszteséges volt, és csak két súlykategóriában – 24-27 kg és 27-30 kg – volt érdemes értékesíteni, mert itt az évek többségében eltérő mértékű, de szerény jövedelem keletkezett. A 20-24 kg-os...

A hazai tógazdasági haltermelés elsődlegesen a pontytermelés sikerén múlik, mely jellemzően hároméves üzemformában történik. Ennek a termelési módnak a legnagyobb hátránya a hosszú megtérülési idő, amiért a tenyésztőknek kiemelt figyelmet kell fordítani a biztonságos...

In this paper we simulate changes in crop land allocations made by farmers in Southern Spain due to the implementation of a flat-rate subsidy. In order to reproduce farmers' decision-making process, we first group farmers by farm size into three categories and then elicit a general utility...

Paper removed at request of authors 08/03/07.

Farming and consumers` decisions are affected by markets globalizations, products differentiation, agricultural industrialization at the retail level and new organizational forms. The linkages among farmers emerge as a viable strategy to compete in this new context. Producers must develop skills...

This article analyzes the export participation of Chilean farms and the relative importance of farm-specific and geographic characteristics in this decision. An export behavior model is estimated using data on 8,284 Chilean farms and a two-stage conditional maximum likelihood procedure. Farm...

In the Czech Republic, agricultural production is still dominated by corporate farms. Private farms have been established since the change of the political regime, but their role is not that relevant as originally anticipated. Among both groups, some have been economically more successful than...