The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture

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ZDRÁHAL IVO, BEČVÁŘOVÁ VĚRA: The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 7, pp. 2951-2964 The paper deals with one of the current problems of the agrarian economics and policy, and this approaches to the defi nition, measurement and interpretation of farm size, as one of the key indicators of evaluation the processes shaping the entrepreneurial structure in the current agribusiness. The results of research into causation factors and processes shaping the business structure of modern agriculture are presented there. It evaluates approaches to express the magnitude of company and its explanatory power in the context of the selected evaluation criteria of the processes and phenomena. It deals with the potential risks of a narrow criterion-oriented agricultural policy in terms of strategy and fulfi llment of role allocation and distribution in order to support of enterprises in today's business environment. The basic trends in the farm size structure in the member countries of the European Union are evaluated including their impact of the signifi cance of individual size segments and their share of the output sector. In this context it evaluates and compares the results of the analysis of developments in business structures in the old and new EU Member States. agricultural holding, agricultural policy, concentration process, farm size indicators, farm size structure In October 2011, the European Commission presented a package of legislative proposals outlining the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) framework a er 2013. Already this fi rst version along with subsequent general discussion on the follow-up amendments triggered a series of o en confl icting and contradictory views concerning not only the priorities, pathways and criteria related to the proposed strategies, but the very vision of the European model of agriculture for the 21st century. It has become clear that, even in this relatively "protected" environment, the processes of globalization are uncompromisingly pursuing their way, with all their positives and negatives.Moreover, in view of the diverse geographic productionand particularly performancecharacteristics of agriculture in the current EU 27 resp. 28 member states, the overall development does not seem to confi rm that the proclaimed common agricultural market constituted a unifi ed environment for all participants and led to a convergence in the structure and in eff ect of the results. It is clear that a sound knowledge of the dynamics of the agribusiness general environment and its interaction with the environment and conditions defi ned at a given stage by the applicable framework of the Common agricultural policy plays an increasingly important role (and not only in the aforementioned common market). In this economic and political interaction, specifi c conceptual and "implementing" materials related to the agenda on specifi c policies of individual countries have be...

The Character of Price Transmission Within Milk Commodity Chain in the Czech Republic

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