Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jindřich ŠPIČKA Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Strategy, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: Ondřej MACHEK Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Strategy, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Change in the production efficiency of European specialized milk farming Abstract: The aim of the article is to identify the key structural, yield and economic determinants of the change in regional efficiency of specialized milk farms over the period 2007 to 2011. The following quantitative methods were applied on the regional FADN data (panel data of 100 regions): the Malmquist productivity index, the Welsh two-sample t-test, and the linear regression analysis. The article put emphasis on the investment activity and investment subsidies allocated in the sample of regions. The results reveal that regions with a positive change in the production efficiency have a significantly higher average milk yield, maize yield, long-term debt ratio, income level, and investment activity than the regions with a negative change in the production efficiency. On the contrary, investment subsidies per livestock unit do not significantly differ between the progressive and other regions. Investment subsidies are slightly higher in the regions with a negative change in the production efficiency and continuously help them to mitigate the drop in technical efficiency. Keywords: agriculture, milk production, technical improvement, Malmquist index, investment Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 1-13 Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 DOI: 10.17221/112/2014-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/112/2014-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201501-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:61:y:2015:i:1:id:112-2014-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hana URBANCOVÁ Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Management , Faculty Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: Helena ČERMÁKOVÁ Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Trade and Accounting, Faculty Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Title: The costs of Age Management in agricultural companies Abstract: In view of the strengthening demographic trend of ageing of the population and the pension reform underway in the Czech Republic, the problem of Age Management, which focuses on the management taking into account the age of employees, has become very current from the perspective of securing manpower. The agricultural sector has also long been facing problems in the area of manpower. Therefore, the aim of the article is to analyse and evaluate the costs for supporting the Age Management in agricultural businesses and to propose measures leading to the effective utilization of these analysed financial means. The data were acquired on the basis of a quantitative survey with the aid of a questionnaire survey in agricultural businesses in the Czech Republic (the number of businesses: n = 436, the number of agricultural businesses: nz = 103). One of the conclusions of the article is that 24.3% of the approached agricultural businesses are implementing the Age Management. These are primarily small and medium agricultural businesses with up to 50 employees, which incur in average 6 to 10% of operational costs in relation to the gained profits on the application of the Age Management principles. Keywords: agriculture, demography development of population, direct and indirect cost, employees, hypothesis, Czech Republic Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 14-22 Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 DOI: 10.17221/93/2014-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/93/2014-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201501-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:61:y:2015:i:1:id:93-2014-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mirjana KRANJAC Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Technical Sciences, University Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia Author-Name: Uroš SIKIMIĆ Author-Workplace-Name: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Author-Name: Marija VUJAKOVIĆ Author-Workplace-Name: BSC Centar, Novi Sad, Serbia Author-Name: Istvan MOLNAR Author-Workplace-Name: The College of Kecskemét, Kecskemét, Hungary Title: Cross border protection of the clusters' intellectual property in the agricultural sector Abstract: The goal of the paper is to analyse the potential for the innovation of cross border clusters from the sector of agriculture. The methodology which is used is the research of intellectual property (IP) of the clusters' members and clusters by using a specific questionnaire for clusters in two countries: Hungary and Serbia. The analysis of results shows a high level of innovativeness within the clusters' members and the need of protection of their intellectual achievements. The similar results were achieved in both countries. They show that the IP rights at the level of clusters should be protected as the cross border trademark and the name of origin. The scientific contribution of this paper is to introduce the concept of the joint cross border IP protection for two or more clusters from different countries which might be applied across the EU. Keywords: intangible capital, protection, innovative potential, trademark, geographic origin Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 23-30 Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 DOI: 10.17221/130/2014-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/130/2014-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201501-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:61:y:2015:i:1:id:130-2014-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Parvadavardini SOUNDARRAJAN Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Humanities, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India Author-Name: Nagarajan VIVEK Author-Workplace-Name: PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore, India Title: A study on the agricultural value chain financing in India Abstract: Agriculture in developing countries is experiencing profound, fast-moving changes. Globalization, although advancing more rapidly in some countries than others, has hastened the transition from the traditional, low-productivity agriculture toward a modern, high-productivity agricultural sector. The resulting processes of structural change are having profound consequences for employment, the methods of generating income, risk management, poverty alleviation, and the wellbeing in rural households in these countries. This study describes the approaches for the organised value chains as a new business model in a globalized world and it describes about the great variety of financial arrangements found in India and the actors in the agri-food chain with varying degrees of formality and informality. The study also brings about the role of the value chain in promoting the rural financing deepening, the financial operators that use agricultural value chain to provide dynamic, innovative services with low cost transaction costs and the technical assistance programs to help the participants in the chain to upgrade their operations, to reduce risk and to improve the access to financial services and concludes by identifying the changes in paradigm. Keywords: financial deepening, financial services, globalization, productivity, risk management Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 31-38 Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 DOI: 10.17221/38/2014-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/38/2014-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201501-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:61:y:2015:i:1:id:38-2014-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: You-Hua CHEN Author-Workplace-Name: College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China Author-Workplace-Name: Guangdong Centre for Rural Economic Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China Author-Name: Jun-Yi WAN Author-Workplace-Name: College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China Author-Name: Chan WANG Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Industrial Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, P.R. China Title: Agricultural subsidy with capacity constraints and demand elasticity Abstract: Agricultural subsidy has attracted more and more attention. This paper captures the effects of subsidy (including area subsidy and price subsidy) on the total sown areas of crops based on the assumption that subsidy has both stimulating effects and inhibiting effects. Different from the prior studies, this paper considers the impacts of the farmland constraint and demand elasticity and some interesting conclusions are achieved. Firstly, a stimulating effect increases crop sown areas while an inhibiting effect reduces them. Secondly, the output efficiency of farmland as well as the demand elasticity has a major impact on the government subsidy. Besides, the capacity constraint makes thing difference and the government should choose between the areas subsidy and price subsidy under different conditions. Finally, this paper offers an empirical test on the conclusions by adopting the Chinese agricultural statistical data. Keywords: allowance, constrained farmland inputs, inhibiting effect, stimulating effect Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 39-49 Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 DOI: 10.17221/60/2014-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/60/2014-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201501-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:61:y:2015:i:1:id:60-2014-AGRICECON