The purpose of research was to analyze ecological development in EU countries during 2000-2012. Six primary variables have been applied, namely: the share of forest area in total land area, emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx) in agriculture, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in agriculture,...

Four classification models of economic bankruptcy of farms based on panel data are presented in the article. The modelling techniques are linear discrimination function, pooled probit model, random effects probit model and artificial neural network. They give very similar quality of...

The productivity is a key issue in economics as it is one of the factors affecting the economic prosperity. An analysis of the agricultural production has a special place in economics of agriculture due to its high dependency on many factors. Therefore, many authors try to define what and to...

This study compares the effect of Common Agricultural Policy implementation on comparative advantages of livestock production in four selected countries, namely Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (V4). The comparative advantage of Czech Republic’s bovine production as well as...

Multivariate methods for analysis of the production and economic results in agricultural holdings in the EU countries are presented. Three methods were used: principal components analysis, cluster analysis and k-means method. The data base concerned 25 countries in the period of 1989- 2006. /...

The paper is a direct continuation of the series of authors articles concerning the construction of new indicators of concentration. In this paper it was considered measures of structures diversity. In the work on the example of structure of agricultural holdings in the European Union in 2003...

Multi-dimensional statistical analysis of the production and economic results recorded by the agricultural holdings in the EU countries in 2005 is conducted in the paper. Cluster analysis has been used. As a result of grouping five homogeneous clusters of holdings in the EU countries have been...

The aim of the paper was to show some basic information about partial equilibrium models and their use for the agricultural sector modeling. As an example the AGMEMOD model was chosen and described. The pig and the pig meat markets modeling were described with a market projection up to 2020 in...

The main objective of the research was to assess the allocation of funds in the Rural Development Program in Poland by using optimization methods. A set of simulations using a linear programming model of budget allocation is presented in the paper. Farmers’ and experts’ assessments of the...