Agriculture farms product differentiation assessment in the Czech Republic

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2021-02-22 DOI:10.17221/442/2020-AGRICECON

M. Chocholoušek, Z. Hloušková, T. Šímová, J. Huml

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Abstract

Farms generally produce products with low differentiation. To reach an increase in the profit and sales, product differentiation is one of the potential strategies that could be successfully applied. This paper identifies "Intermediate Consumption/Total Output" as a simple and user-friendly indicator for farm product differentiation performance and comparison assessment in the Czech Republic, based on a two-step cluster analysis performed on 1 225 farms with different operating conditions and reproduction process characteristics in the Czech Republic. The data are sourced from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN CZ). Four farm clusters based on product differentiation levels are identified and described from the point of view of the production process and conditions. The resulting cluster profiles, in general, indicate the production conditions and process affecting the resulting product differentiation. Nevertheless, farms deliver extraordinary product differentiation values in fields with less favourable conditions and production processes. Those have the potential to be an inspiration for farms with lower product differentiation values. The result of this paper provides hope, less favourable conditions are not a limit for formidable performance. This paper result can be practically applied by anyone aiming to easily identify, evaluate, and compare farm product differentiation levels.

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捷克共和国农业农场产品差异化评价

农场通常生产的产品分化程度较低。为了达到利润和销售额的增长，产品差异化是可以成功应用的潜在策略之一。本文通过对捷克1225个具有不同经营条件和再生产过程特征的农场进行两步聚类分析，确定了“中间消费/总产出”作为捷克农产品差异化绩效和比较评估的一个简单易用的指标。数据来源于农场会计数据网络(FADN CZ)。从生产过程和条件的角度，确定并描述了基于产品差异化水平的四个农场集群。一般来说，产生的集群概况表明了影响最终产品差异化的生产条件和过程。然而，农场在条件和生产过程不太有利的领域提供了非凡的产品差异化价值。这些有可能成为产品差异化价值较低的农场的灵感。本文的结果提供了希望，不利的条件并不限制令人敬畏的表现。本文的结果可以实际应用于任何旨在轻松识别，评估和比较农产品差异化水平的人。

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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.