Regional Differences in Agriculture in Slovakia after Its Accession to the European Union

Némethová, Jana; Civáň, Marek

doi:10.1515/quageo-2017-0011

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“…Rudnicki (2009) hints at the deepening regional disparities in Polish agriculture. In the Czech Republic a similar topic was dealt with in the works of Kabrda and Jančák (2007) and by Slovakia Spišiak et al (2005), Kramáreková (2014, 2017), Némethová and Civáň (2017) and Némethová, Midler and Civáň (2018).…”

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Development of crop production in the Slovakia and Czechia after the year 2004 in comparison with V4 countries

Némethová

Svobodová

Krejčí

et al. 2020

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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The V4 countries went through a transformation of their entire economies, including the agricultural sector, in the 1990s. Each of these countries approached the transformation of agriculture differently, but later the V4 countries’ approach to agricultural development was unified by the EU's common agricultural policy. The aim of the paper was to compare the development of the production (sown area and hectare yield) of selected most commonly cultivated crops in Slovak and Czech regions (NUTS 3) in the period between 2004 and 2017. The development of production in these two countries was also evaluated against the trends of V4 countries. Based on these analyses, common and specific agriculture development trends in V4 countries were revealed. A chronological average was used to evaluate the average values of the monitored indicators in the period from 2004 to 2017 in Slovak and Czech regions. To express the development of the given indicators between 2004 and 2017, the change index was used and visualised cartographically. Regression analysis was used to show the development trends of agricultural production in the V4 countries. In general, the agricultural sectors in the V4 countries show similar characteristics with similar trends, and the average hectare yield has a modest growing trend. In terms of the structure of the cultivated plants, the size of the cultivated areas, the volume of production and the average hectare yields, there have been considerable changes to crop farming in Slovak and Czech regions. The study showed that the changes in the agrarian sector after the year 2004 conditioned by the entry of Czechia and Slovakia into the European Union were reflected in a decrease in crop production and an increase in regional disparities. From the point of view of the production indicator expressing the hectare yield of crops, Czechia achieves better indicator values than does Slovakia.

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Development of crop production in the Slovakia and Czechia after the year 2004 in comparison with V4 countries

Némethová

Svobodová

Krejčí

et al. 2020

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…Classic crop production in Slovakia consist mainly of cereals. Winter wheat, spring barley, and maize cover 59% of the agricultural land [60].…”

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Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Short Rotation Plantations on Marginal Lands: Qualitative Study About Incentives and Barriers in Slovakia

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Short rotation plantations (SRP), also called short rotation coppice, can contribute to bioeconomy by satisfying the rising demand for wood raw material while strengthening the rural economy. However, farmers all over Europe show limited adoption of SRP. Marginal lands are considered a promising option for producing SRP biomass and avoiding conflicts with food production. This study focuses on the Malacky region in Western Slovakia because of suitable land quality and a board production site close by providing a significant local market for the produced biomass. Qualitative interviews in 2018 explored personal and situational factors that influenced local farmers’ (N = 19) willingness to adopt SRP. Slovakia’s land fragmentation in combination with the required landowner’s consent, competition with food production, and lack of identification with SRP were identified as prominent barriers. The economic benefit from using low quality lands and environmental benefits from SRP were identified incentives. Moreover, the study found agricultural cooperatives more open to SRP than agricultural business companies, as they are more interested in the economic benefits and prefer agricultural activity over fallow land. Because the study identified conflicting views about the possible impacts of SRP on the environment and the rural community, it is considered crucial to provide farmers with science-based facts on these issues. This aspect should also be acknowledged to increase acceptance of stakeholders, such as land owners, governmental actors, and the general public, which is needed to develop measures to encourage SRP.

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“…The Position of Agriculture and Food sector in V4 Countries and Pokrivčák, 2017) In case of the 2 sectors, the transformation process brought many changes (the structure, property rights, cheap imported products or machinery renovation), necessary for assuring higher similarity of economic structures of so-called "old" and "new" EU members (Turčeková et al, 2015). With transition, these countries lost many traditional markets but new markets of other EU countries, together with new financial resources, were opened to them with the accession in 2004 (Lauri, 2012;Néméthová and Civáň, 2017) In general, position and importance of any sector can be described by various basic indicators. One of the simplest are e.g.…”

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The Position of Agriculture and Food Sector in V4 Countries

Bartóková

2019

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Input-output tables are a simple tool, used for studying the structure of economies or sectors' demand and supply linkages. The aim of this paper is to present and compare the main characteristics of 2 selected sectors in V4 countries, namely the agriculture and food sectors. The analysis is based on the input output coefficients and multipliers, used for studying input, output and import relationships. These analyses can reveal ongoing structural changes what represents an interesting topic especially for former transition economies. The objective is to verify the similarities in the position and the development of these sectors, to examine backward and forward linkages and their strength in order to identify key sectors and to measure possible concentrations of their impacts. With accordance to the previous research and general trends, we expected certain decline of importance over the period 2000-2014, especially in terms of production, employment but also in overall effects on the whole economy. This was mostly confirmed with the exception of Polish data that point out to relatively stronger domestic position of both sectors. The presented results were obtained within the Research Project VEGA/1/0961/16

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Regional Differences in Agriculture in Slovakia after Its Accession to the European Union

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Development of crop production in the Slovakia and Czechia after the year 2004 in comparison with V4 countries

Development of crop production in the Slovakia and Czechia after the year 2004 in comparison with V4 countries

Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Short Rotation Plantations on Marginal Lands: Qualitative Study About Incentives and Barriers in Slovakia

The Position of Agriculture and Food Sector in V4 Countries

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