Diversification of the level of agricultural development in the member states of the European Union

Abstract

-The paper aimed to evaluate the level of development of agriculture in 25 member states of the European Union (EU) in 2010-2013. The analysis was carried out using the development model proposed by Hellwig, which enabled the calculation of a single synthetic aggregate measure based on the characteristics of agriculture in respective countries. This made it possible to compare the analysed member states, thus providing the basis for allocating them to uniform groups characterised by a similar level of agricultural development. The results indicate that the Netherlands and Denmark are the countries with the highest level of agricultural development. The studies also show that the worst level of development in the ranking is presented primarily by the member states that acceded to the EU in 2004 and later, with agriculture in Slovakia and the Czech Republic being an exception. The diversification of the values of synthetic measure in respective member states points to a considerable diversification of agricultural development within the EU, which is determined both by the production potential and the effectiveness of its utilisation.

Competitiveness of Agriculture in New Member States of the European Union

“…A clear difference can be observed between new and old EU member states regarding the agricultural sector's competitiveness. This diversity was noted by many authors, e.g., Nowak et al (2016), and Barath and Fertő (2017). Csaki and Jambor (2019) emphasize that transformation of the political system and accession to the European Union had a large influence on the present situation of agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe.…”

Change in the Level of Agricultural Development in the Context of Public Institutions’ Activities—A Case Study of the NASC Activities in Poland

“…The methodology used in the research is applied to determine the level of agricultural growth [56][57][58][59] (used the findings from these studies to build the matrix of diagnostic features used-tab 1), although it is also useful to study the level of social and economic development [30,] and the level of sustainable development [30,56,]. The National Agricultural Support Centre may have an impact on the level of agriculture achieved [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67].…”

Correlation of the level of salaries of employees in medium-sized agricultural enterprises and individual farms and the impact on top management

“…Management in agricultural activity must be considered with a particular degree of attention, in which many authors point out in their work (Popović at al., 2015, Kuo et al, 2018, Novaković et al, 2018. In addition to them and other authors, they emphasize the importance of observing agricultural activity in the broadest context of observation, that is, in the context of global level observations, which are influenced by very heterogeneous factors (Nowak et al, 2016 The issues of labor force evaluation can be seen from multiple levels. One way is to observe from the local level or the region of the state, which they indirectly point out (Kukovič et of salaries of employees in the broadest form of organizing agricultural production in the Republic of Serbia.…”