The Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) is a sample survey that annually gathers information from more than 80,000 European farms. Its main aim to provide data the EU Commission used in assessment of farm profitability and evaluation Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) impacts.FADN results are also published nationally almost all Member States. Italian fadn (named RICA - Rete Italiana di Contabil...

Efficiency analysis is used for assessing links between technical efficiency (TE) of livestock farms and animal diseases. However, previous studies often do not make the link with the allocation of inputs and mainly present average effects that ignore the often huge differences among farms. In this paper, we studied the relationship between exposure to gastrointestinal (GI) nematode infections,...

This article investigates dairy farm investment behaviour and the presence of soft budget constraints in farms Baltic Central European transition countries – Estonia, Hungary Slovenia using individual accountancy panel data for years 2007–2015. The empirical results confirm that gross is positively associated with previous year financially unconstrained farms, negatively constrained farms. It a...

The aim of the paper is to outline problem areas fertilizer management in Poland, taking need achieve European Green Deal (EGD) objectives into account. Fertilizer one key elements future agricultural policy, which refers, and closer Farm Fork strategy. emphasis on promote rational documents stemmed from pressures this economic activity natural environment. focuses main determinants management,...

Department of Health Services Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, 2 School of Social Policy, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 3 Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Department of Insurance, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, Department of Economics, F...

Purpose: Agricultural support programmes most commonly aim at attaining higher production of raw food materials or supporting processes resulting in agricultural yield. One the important challenges is to increase labour productivity, thanks which working sector may be attractive comparison with non-agricultural sector. In literature, scope economy, there a lack consistent results concerning rel...

U strukturi poljoprivredne proizvodnje Republike Hrvatske prevladava biljna proizvodnja. Bez provođenja neke od mjera zaštite gubitci potencijalnog prinosa na svjetskoj razini bili bi oko 50%. Poljoprivreda EU se još uvijek uvelike oslanja upotrebu pesticida za zaštitu bilja a prosječni specifični troškovi biljne (u koje spada i trošak zaštite) čine 41,5% ukupnog troška u EU-28. Primjenom stand...

The Integrated Supply Chain Projects (ISCP) are promoted under the framework of Rural Development Programs (RDPs). Considering scarce literature on ISCP, case Tuscany, one Italian regions that has implemented ISCPs most aggressively, was analyzed. aim this work is to give evidence potential positive effects for agricultural sector by considering differences between ISCP beneficiaries (treated) ...

infiltration rate is one of the most important soil physical parameters and is a basic input data in irrigation and drainage projects. although, a number of theoretical or experimental based equations are presented to describe this phenomenon but the evaluation of some new sciences such as artificial neural networks, for prediction of the phenomenon can be investigated. generally, the infiltrat...

COULD there be anything more exciting than International Accountants Day? Well, perhaps . . . Accountancy, unfortunately has an undeserved reputation for being an uncreative art form, yet November 10 is a hallowed day for an industry which prides itself on the adage ‘everyone counts’. To mark this ‘special event’, we’ve put together a few ‘interesting’ facts about accountancy that may just give...