Farm outcomes based on cluster analysis of compound farm evaluation

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI:10.17221/273/2020-AGRICECON

Z. Hloušková, M. Lekešová

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the internal structure of Czech agricultural holdings based on a multicriteria evaluation of the five dimensions representing the main functions of agriculture including production, economic factors, financial stability, environmental, and social and other factors. A cluster analysis was performed to identify two clusters of farms. The first cluster consists of smaller holdings that specialize in livestock production and achieve poorer financial results compared to the second cluster, which includes a larger share of large holdings that focus on crop production. The first cluster exhibited better performance as regards environmental protection and financial stability. In contrast, the second cluster achieved better scores regarding production and economic factors. However, an evaluation of all dimensions showed that the second cluster of farms obtained slightly better ratings (2.7% above the overall average) then the first cluster (3.1% below the overall average score). It is up to policy makers to decide which group of farmers, is more approaching the aim of the new agricultural policy. Policy makers can consider the results of this study to find the areas where the sustainability rate should be increased and purposefully promote that by specific measures to achieve balanced farming system.

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基于 聚类分析的 复合农场结果评价

本文的目的是基于对代表农业主要功能的五个维度的多标准评估，包括生产、经济因素、金融稳定、环境、社会和其他因素，来研究捷克农业控股的内部结构。进行聚类分析以确定两个农场集群。第一个集群由专门从事畜牧生产的小型控股公司组成，与第二个集群相比，它们的财务业绩较差，第二个集群包括更大比例的专注于作物生产的大型控股公司。第一个集群在环境保护和金融稳定方面表现得更好。相比之下，第二集群在生产和经济要素方面得分更高。然而，对所有维度的评估表明，第二组农场获得的评级略好于第一组(比整体平均得分高出2.7%)(比整体平均得分低3.1%)。决策者应该决定哪一类农民更接近新农业政策的目标。政策制定者可以考虑本研究的结果，找到可持续发展率应该提高的领域，并有针对性地通过具体措施促进可持续发展率的提高，以实现平衡的农业系统。

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Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.

Farm outcomes based on cluster analysis of compound farm evaluation

Abstract

Farm outcomes based on cluster analysis of compound farm evaluation