scholarly journals Labour Costs on the Vegetables: A Research on the location effect on salaries in Jiangsu Province, China

2022 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huimin Zhang ◽  
Yancheng Liu ◽  
Zhiping Zhang ◽  
Minmin Miao
Keyword(s):  
Labour Cost ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Bedding Plant ◽  
Hand Pollination ◽  
Labour Requirement ◽  
Soil Preparation ◽  
Culture Process

ABSTRACT: In this study, the labour requirement and labour cost of common vegetable cultivation were investigated to help agricultural enterprises and family farms establishing reasonable “working hour” management systems in Jiangsu Province. The labour requirement of each step of three type of producers, agriculture enterprises, family farms, and private vegetable growers, in three regions in Jiangsu Province, named north, middle and south Jiangsu, was investigated by on-site observation or questionnaire survey during 2018 and 2019. The labour cost of each step and each vegetable was counted according to the labour requirement and the salary level. The results indicated that “residue cleaning”, “soil preparation and bedding”, “plant regulation”, “auxin treatment of tomato flowers” and “hand pollination” accounted for higher proportions of labour cost amongst the entire vegetable culture process. No significant differences in the labour requirements of the investigated vegetables were reported amongst three regions in Jiangsu Province. However, the order of labour cost is south Jiangsu > north Jiangsu > middle Jiangsu, due to the salary difference amongst three regions. Watermelon, broccoli and chive are more suitable for growing by agricultural enterprises since they have relatively low unit labour and high prices. We established a method to calculate and analyze labour requirement and cost of vegetable production in Jiangsu Province, which also may be instructive for other regions. In addition, our results provided useful data for various vegetable producers to improve their labour management.

scholarly journals Resource Use Efficiency in Organic Vegetable Production: A Case Study of Manzini Region, Swaziland

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumsile Dlamini F ◽  
Mukole Kongolo
Keyword(s):  
Returns To Scale ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Organic Vegetables ◽  
Organic Vegetable Production ◽  
Soil Preparation ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Children Education

This study investigated the efficient use of resources in the production of organic vegetables, namely: beetroot, cabbage, carrot, pepper, spinach and tomatoes. The findings indicated that land, labour, organic manure, seeds, soil preparation, age; children, education level and farm legal entity all had significant effect in organic vegetables production in the region. The use of inputs in the production of the vegetables showed increasing returns to scale. As a result of this, the study suggested that in order for farmers to produce efficiently; all inputs that were significant in the production of the vegetables needed to be doubled in order to double the output. 

scholarly journals Morphostructural characterization of soil conventionally tilled with mechanized and animal traction with and without cover crop

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1795-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ralisch ◽  
Edinei de Almeida ◽  
Adriana Pereira da Silva ◽  
Osvaldo Coelho Pereira Neto ◽  
Maria de Fátima Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Cover Crops ◽  
Cover Crop ◽  
Soil Structure ◽  
Soil Analysis ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Jack Bean ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Soil Preparation

The structural stability and restructuring ability of a soil are related to the methods of crop management and soil preparation. A recommended strategy to reduce the effects of soil preparation is to use crop rotation and cover crops that help conserve and restore the soil structure. The aim of this study was to evaluate and quantify the homogeneous morphological units in soil under conventional mechanized tillage and animal traction, as well as to assess the effect on the soil structure of intercropping with jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis L.). Profiles were analyzed in April of 2006, in five counties in the Southern-Central region of Paraná State (Brazil), on family farms producing maize (Zea mays L.), sometimes intercropped with jack bean. The current structures in the crop profile were analyzed using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and subsequently principal component analysis (PCA) to generate statistics. Morphostructural soil analysis showed a predominance of compact units in areas of high-intensity cultivation under mechanized traction. The cover crop did not improve the structure of the soil with low porosity and compact units that hamper the root system growth. In areas exposed to animal traction, a predominance of cracked units was observed, where roots grew around the clods and along the gaps between them.

scholarly journals Integrating aspect of economic development in Ukrainian agriculture

Ekonomika APK ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 312 (10) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Inna Bezhenar ◽  
Larisa Malik ◽  
Andrii Shvets
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Business Entities

The purpose of the article is to determine the directions of integration processes in the development of entrepreneurial activity in the agricultural sector of the economy. Research methods. Using statistical and graphical methods, the state and trends of integration transformations of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine were assessed. Research results. The dynamics of changes in the number of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine during 2013-2019, their structure on the basis of legal status, scope and results of activities are analyzed and the relevant conclusions on the ways of development of integration processes in the agricultural sector are formed. The functioning of agrarian business entities of different sizes has been studied. The integration potential of small business entities in the agricultural sector has been identified. The dynamics of the main production indicators of small and micro enterprises is given, their share in the total volume of agricultural production is determined. Also, small forms of management due to integration and cooperative processes provide an opportunity to develop in rural areas, making financial contributions to local budgets, while large enterprises (agricultural holdings) usually have minimal impact on the development of rural economy and rural areas. The main segments of agricultural production (such as potatoes, vegetables, fruits and berries) in which households play a key role are identified. Priority areas for the development of personal farms have been identified, in particular, through the creation of family farms and their association in cooperatives, etc. The information base of the study is the scientific achievements of leading domestic and foreign scientists, analytical data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. On the basis of the obtained results the social and economic expediency of development of cooperative forms of management in the countryside and integration of small-scale agricultural producers is substantiated. Scientific novelty. It is proposed to turn personal peasant farms into family farms as components of integration formations in agrarian business. Practical significance. The state of business structures of the agricultural sector of the Ukrainian economy is assessed and the prospects and advantages of the development of integration formations and cooperation in the sustainable development of rural areas are outlined. Tabl.: 8. Figs.: 1. Refs.: 20.

scholarly journals Changes in Russia’s agrarian structure: What can we learn from agricultural census?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Yanbykh ◽  
Valeriy Saraikin ◽  
Zvi Lerman
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Market Signals ◽  
Farm Type ◽  
Agricultural Census ◽  
Peasant Family

The classification of agricultural producers by legal-organizational form (agricultural enterprises, peasant (family farms), household plots and gardening associations), traditionally used by the Russian official statistics, is outdated and masks the dynamic changes that have taken place. Due to the lack of output and sales data in 2016 agricultural census, the paper uses some assumptions to calculate the so called “standard revenue” as a measure of the potential output in each census farm. The results highlight that there is only a small share of commercial production units in Russia and there is high heterogeneity of agricultural producers within each legal-organizational farm type. Contrary to a priori expectations, a large number of household plots became commercialized between the previous census in 2006 and the latest census in 2016 and they contribute 19% of the standard revenue of all commercial census units, more than the share of family farms. These results suggest that the old classification used for statistical purposes does not reflect adequately the dynamic changes stemming from the response to market signals.

scholarly journals Family farm - one of the directions of goat breeding in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
V. O. Popova ◽  
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V. H. Prudnikov ◽  
O. Kolisnyk ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Small Family ◽  
Green Tourism ◽  
Tourism Services

People in Ukraine are paying more and more attention to goat breeding products, and the demand for the products encourages the population to actively engage in the industry. Currently, about 95 % of the goat herd in Ukraine is concentrated in private peasant farms. Today, none of the livestock industries in Ukraine has such a high concentration of animals among the population. So, within the framework of analytical studies, the main types of family farms have been identified in terms of their size and structure. It was determined that they are divided mostly into three main types: small household plots with up to 10 animals, small family farms with up to 100 animals and farms with more than 100 milking goats. An analysis of the farming aspects of these types of farms and the perspectives for further development revealed some general results and general trends. Goat keeping in small household plots with up to 10 goats is not subject to a deep economic and technological analysis, the management is done with an amateur approach, and the technologies are based on personal family experience and vary considerably between them. The goats are only raised for the production of their own family. Goat keeping on small family farms with up to 100 goats is oriented towards the global experience of running a small family business. These farms produce and sell milk, process it into craft products (cheese, yoghurt, etc.) and provide green tourism services. Farms, which contain more than 100 heads of goats can be classified as agricultural enterprises, where industrial technologies for conducting the industry are applied. The products are sold by wholesale or through retail outlets. In general, an analysis of approaches to farming on different family farms has revealed that small family farms with up to 100 animals are the most promising from a socio-economic point of view. They are more progressive than extensive small household plots and are more flexible in many managing aspects than large-scale farms. Family farms are able to respond to market demand in a timely and sufficiently fast manner, adapt to it and make a profit.

scholarly journals The Ways to Improve the Efficiency of Agricultural Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (3) ◽  
pp. 032105
Author(s):  
A Soyunov ◽  
U Sabiev ◽  
A Golovin ◽  
S Prokopov ◽  
R Abdylmanova
Keyword(s):  
High Technology ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Soil Cultivation ◽  
Seed Material ◽  
Technical Maintenance ◽  
Soil Preparation ◽  
Seedbed Preparation ◽  
One Machine

Abstract In the modern world a person strives for an industrial society more and more, accumulating power and trying to enclose them in one machine that would perform several operations in one pass over the field surface. So there are implements performing tillage with application of fertilizers or soil cultivation with simultaneous planting and application of fertilizers. Using such implements allows to reduce costs for further cultivation of crops. However, the stake placed on soil preparation and application of fertilizers can not always give the desired effect without due attention to the seed material and technical maintenance. That is why seedbed preparation, the seed material and machines are the main problems of high technology society.

Impact of land tenure on the participation in factor income in agriculture of Slovenia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Irena Žaucer ◽  
Helena Puc
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Agricultural Area ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Factor Income

AbstractThe purpose of the article is to present agricultural land tenure in Slovenia and its impact on the division of the factor income into the part intended for the production factor of land and the improvement by the introduction of the rent statistics. The land, together with the labour force and capital, contributes to the income generation and it is one of the production factors that participate in the income division. The analyses so far have been based on the FADN data but the Slovenian analysis is based on data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA), it uses different sources, and a different calculation approach. The calculation is based on the share of rented utilised agricultural area which amounts to about 30% of the total utilised area. Due to the availability of the data the rent value is calculated depending on the institutional sectors – for agricultural enterprises (the non-financial enterprise sector) and family farms (the household sector). In 2016 the average rent per ha of utilised agricultural area amounted to almost EUR 150 and the nominal value of rents paid in Slovenian agriculture to EUR 21 million. Slovenian share of rent in factor income for the period 2000–2016 is 3%, which is substantially lower than the European Union (EU-28) average of 8%. In 2016, the factor income per employee was around EUR 6,000; about 4% of this amount was contributed to the land in the form of rent value. The rest was contributed to the workforce and capital. The paper presents the results that could be helpful for the agricultural and land policy makers.

scholarly journals VEGETABLE GROWING IN THE FOOD MARKET SYSTEM: PECULIARITIES, TENDENCIES, PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Victoria Rud
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Cis Countries

Purpose. The aim of the article is the analysis of the current state of vegetable production in Ukraine, identification of the main problems of its development, identification of areas for stabilization and improving the efficiency of the vegetable sub-complex in the future. Methodology of research. The methodological basis of the study was scientific papers on the formation and functioning of the vegetable market. The following methods were used: dialectical, abstract and logical, system analysis (theoretical generalizations and conclusions); mathematical and statistical, the method of expert assessments (when establishing a rating assessment of the level of vegetable yield). Findings. The analysis of production indicators, sown areas and yield levels of major crops for the period 2000-2019 in Ukraine, Europe and the world was carried out. The peculiarities of the development of the vegetable sub-complex in the system of the national food market are determined. Aspects of formation of food security of Ukraine on the basis of an estimation of levels of manufacture and consumption, volumes of export and import are considered. The level of food security of the country in 2015 and 2019 was determined by calculating the indicator of economic affordability of products and indicators of adequacy of consumption of different groups of products in Ukraine in 2019. The reasons of unsatisfactory condition of the vegetable sub-complex are analysed, the general strategy and priority directions of development of vegetable growing and melon growing and processing branch for the period till 2025 are stated. Originality. The study of trends in the development of the vegetable industry for the 20-year period (2000-2019) in Ukraine, CIS countries, regions of the world and a comparison of the rate of change of these indicators for this period was further developed. Practical value. The results of the conducted study can be used in the development of sectoral and regional strategic policy documents for the development of vegetable growing, as well as agricultural enterprises in determining further guidelines for their own development. Key words: food security, vegetable growing, production dynamics, consumption, innovative development.

scholarly journals Milk quality in the context of new standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
L.M. Stepasiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Dairy Industry ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Private Households ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
Processing Plants

The article describes the current state of the dairy industry in Ukraine. The quality of milk raw materials in agricultural enterprises and households is characterized. The price situation in the milk market is analyzed. In the course of the research it was proved that in the agricultural enterprises the number of cows decreases annually, the logistics are in critical condition. The emerging situation is gaining ground as the country turns from a dairy exporter into an importer. It is established that today one of the main problems is the provision of processing plants with high-quality raw materials. The conducted researches confirm that today only agricultural enterprises that carry out mechanical milking, purification and cooling of milk can provide the necessary quality of the produced milk. Households do not have the capacity to provide the necessary technological process of production. That is why milk produced in households meets the requirements of only the second grade or non-varietal. As a consequence, in most cases milk is purchased at low prices from the population, whereas in agricultural enterprises it is sold extra, higher and first grade. Therefore, the development of civilized trade requires quality certified products. It is established that the determining factor of the competitiveness of dairy products in the market is the quality of products. Without the use of high-quality raw materials, it is impossible to produce a competitive product. It is substantiated that the development of cooperatives, small and family farms and their involvement in the organized market is one of the priority tasks for improving the quality indicators and increasing the purchase prices for milk purchased from private households. Therefore, this problem must be solved by intensifying agrarian policy in the inseparable support for the development of the dairy industry on the basis of state support.

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