Supporting Producer Groups – Increasing Producer’s Value Aded?

Kotyza, Pavel; Tomšík, Karel; Elisova, K.; Hornowski, Andrzej

doi:10.2478/sab-2018-0020

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“…Many of the supported units are no longer active. In these countries, only over twenty organisations still operate, but they do not have a significant impact on the increase in the added value of the agricultural sector (Kotyza et al, 2018). In Slovakia, we also note that reducing the number of groups by 40% resulted in a decrease in the number of associated members by 49%.…”

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Collective Action Theory of Mancur Olson on the Example of Integrated Fruit and Vegetable Producers

Bieniek-Majka

2020

Economic Sciences for Agribusiness and Rural Economy

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The aim of this article was to answer the question-do integrated fruit and vegetable producers act in accordance with the assumptions of "the logic of collective actions" by Olson, or want to increase the market organisation level, as suggested by Docian Ciolos, increasing the number of existing groups/organisations? Basing on a library query, the assumptions of the "logic of collective actions" are presented. Using the data provided by the European Commission, a significant negative relationship was found between the average size of the group/organisation and its effectiveness. In addition, there was a regress of organising the fruit and vegetable market in the European Union. Therefore, it is suggested that according to the assumptions of Mancur Olson's theory, selective stimuli (institutional support) motivating members of groups/organisations to produce a common good that can be, i.a., overcoming the barrier of production scale or competitiveness of the sector should be applied.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Collective Action Theory of Mancur Olson on the Example of Integrated Fruit and Vegetable Producers

Bieniek-Majka

2020

Economic Sciences for Agribusiness and Rural Economy

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“…In analyzing the effect of the RDP support on the establishment of APOs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Kotyza et al (2018) found differences in the design and implementation of the APO support policies. They assess the Slovak policy as more successful.…”

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Membership in agricultural producer organizations and farm technical efficiency in Slovakia

Bartova

Fandel

2020

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Research background: EU National Rural Development Programs (RDPs) support food chain organization, including the establishment of agricultural producer organizations (APOs) to assist the cooperation among small- and medium-sized farms and improve their performance. Purpose of the article: We assessed how membership in an APO affects technical efficiency in a sample of Slovak farms. We break down our results by the type of membership (non-members, long-term members, and members of newly established APOs, benefitting from the RDP support) and production specialization of farms (crops, livestock, unspecialized). We expected a positive effect of membership on farm performance, although with differences by production specialization. Methods: We analyzed cross-sectional data of 645 farms in Slovakia in 2014, when the 2007–2013 RDP support was over. We applied a DEA-based two-stage metafrontier approach. During the first stage, we estimated group-specific efficiency and calculated adjusted (target) values of inputs, given the outputs. During the second stage, we estimated the meta-technical efficiency of farms relative to the metafrontier derived from pooled adjusted inputs and outputs of farm groups by their membership within production specialization. The meta-efficiency indicates farm efficiency associated with membership in a producer organization. We examined the differences between meta-efficiency by membership groups by the Kruskal-Wallis and post hoc Dunn’s tests. Findings & Value added: Members of APOs were mainly large farms. Membership in newly established APOs, benefitting from of the RDP support, contributed significantly to higher technical efficiency of livestock and crop farms. Their performance was, however, affected by managerial and scale inefficiencies. Well-performing farms with good farm management had joined APOs already before the year 2007. However, the long-term APO membership did not improve farm technical efficiency significantly. Public support of farm cooperation should be designed to improve the governance, sustainability of the APO activities, and performance of their members.

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Market Adjustments of Fruit and Vegetable Producers to Changing Distribution Channels in Selected European Union Countries After 2012

2019

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The purpose of the article was to indicate selected distribution channels in groups and organizations of fruit and vegetable producers in countries with different agrarian structures and cultures of horizontal organization, as well as identify differences in preferred distribution channels. Based on the literature review, changes in the supply chain of agri-food products were presented and the growing importance of retail chains was pointed out. Using the data obtained from the European Commission, the weight of individual distribution channels was presented, and by Ward agglomeration cluster analysis using Euclidean distances, 3 disjointed clusters of countries with different characteristics of fruit and vegetable producer groups/organizations were selected. The first cluster consisted of few producer groups/organizations from Great Britain, Denmark and Romania, whose members engaged in a relatively large area of land and dedicated (65%) their production to retail chains, thus obtaining, on average, higher effects (measured by sales value) attributable to both the group/organization and hectare of land. In contrast, the third cluster included producers from countries that are leaders in the production of fruit and vegetables in Europe, that is, from Spain, Italy, France and Poland. What was characteristic for them was that many members possessing a relatively small area of land joined groups/organisations. They dedicated their production (25%) to retail chains, and their advantage, which may affect the largest share of the average value of sales per member, is the processing of raw materials as part of their own operations.

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Supporting Producer Groups – Increasing Producer’s Value Aded?

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Collective Action Theory of Mancur Olson on the Example of Integrated Fruit and Vegetable Producers

Collective Action Theory of Mancur Olson on the Example of Integrated Fruit and Vegetable Producers

Membership in agricultural producer organizations and farm technical efficiency in Slovakia

Market Adjustments of Fruit and Vegetable Producers to Changing Distribution Channels in Selected European Union Countries After 2012

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