scholarly journals Analysis of the agricultural labor force and its impact on agricultural products obtained in the South-Muntenia region

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 2640-2649
Author(s):  
FLORINA RUXANDRA TEODORESCU ◽  
◽  
LIVIU MĂRCUȚĂ ◽  
CĂTĂLINANICOLETA COMAN ◽  
VALENTINA CONSTANȚA TUDOR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
The South ◽  
Development Region ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to highlight the impact that the labor force in the agricultural sector has on the production obtained from the main crops in the South-Muntenia development region, Romania, in the period 2014-2018. Following the study of theoretical aspects in the fields mentioned above and combining these studies with the interpretation and analysis of statistical data, an analysis will be established to establish the level at which the agricultural labor force in the South-Muntenia region impacts the productions of five important crops. Romanian agricultural sector, respectively: wheat, corn, sunflower, rapeseed and soybeans. In the South-Muntenia region, made up of Argeș, Călărași, Dâmbovița, Giurgiu, Ialomița, Prahova and Teleorman counties, the percentage of people working in the agricultural sector in 2018 was 27.8% of the total population of this region.

scholarly journals The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongqi Deng ◽  
Qianyu Zhao ◽  
Helen X. H. Bao
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security. On the one hand, the requisition–compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy could reduce farmland productivity because of a “superior occupation and inferior compensation”; on the other hand, urbanization promotes the transfer of the younger labor force and thus reduces the productivity of the agricultural labor force. To investigate the undesirable effects, based on some stylized facts, this study selects 29,415 county-level samples in a Chinese county from 2000–2014 to construct an empirical model. With a new stochastic frontier analysis method that eliminates the classical econometric issues of endogeneity and heterogeneity, the empirical results show that there is a U-shaped relationship between the farmland use efficiency (productivity) and urbanization rate, indicating that only when the urbanization rate is relatively low would urbanization decrease the farmland use efficiency; in contrast, when the urbanization rate is relatively high, technical progress would obviously be accompanied by urbanization, and thus, the undesirable effects are fully offset. Furthermore, the U-shaped relationship is robust after considering the endogeneity of the urbanization rate and total-factor farmland use efficiency. With these findings, recommendations to implement sustainable management and conservation policies regarding farmland resources are made.

scholarly journals Impact of agricultural supports on competitiveness of agricultural products

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 286-295
Author(s):  
Hasan Arisoy
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Vector Autoregression ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Var Model ◽  
Political Variable ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The agricultural sector is being supported in Turkey, as well as in the world. The issue of competitiveness is observed in agriculture, despite supports. This study aims at investigating the impact of agricultural supports in Turkey on competitiveness of agricultural products. Vector autoregression (VAR) model has been adopted in the study. The internal terms of trade (TOT), percentage producer support estimate (PSE), and the producer nominal protection coefficient (NPC) variables have been included in the model. The internal terms of trade in Turkey have developed over time against the benefit of agricultural sector. PSE has had a significant impact on TOT. Therefore, the use of PSE as a political variable has been concluded as a significant. Means of support must be discussed in Turkey more than the amount of supports. In particular, supports that will provide farmers with competitive advantage and boost up product farmyard prices will be more efficient and beneficial for farmers.

Regional pacts to facilitate global agriculture trade

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Global Agriculture ◽  
The Impact

Subject The impact of preferential trade agreements on global agricultural trade. Significance Bilateral and regional trade agreements have proliferated since the late 1980s. They account for over 50% of world trade and their share is increasing, according to OECD estimates. These agreements are particularly significant for agricultural trade, principally because this sector has the most to gain from low tariff access to markets. Yet they raise the question of whether such agreements are the most effective instruments for reducing barriers to global agricultural trade. Impacts Agricultural products such as sugar and dairy are likely to continue appearing frequently on the 'sensitive products' list in PTAs. Japan's aversion to opening its agricultural sector represents a major hurdle to the TPP. The European Parliament will probably reject any TTIP agreement that requires abandoning the 'precautionary principle' on food standards.

scholarly journals Tarım Sektöründe İşgücü Terminolojisinin Tanımlanması

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Zeki Bayramoğlu ◽  
Merve Bozdemir
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Market Formation ◽  
Total Labor

Labor is the efficient part of the population in production. Total labor supply that occurs subject to the developments in the population and labor demand that shapes according to the economic conditions; are two basic elements of market formation. Labor markets can be defined as a social organization where supply and demand are met and wage occurs. Labor market among all market structures are in such position that is significantly affected by other units of the economy and highly affects them due to its functioning and features. Therefore, during the production process and planning, it is necessary to analyze the labor markets in detail. The agricultural labor market within the labor markets which forms the basis of the economy and contributes to other markets from various sources, needs to be analyzed. The agricultural labor should be analyzed and classified because of the following reasons; the agricultural labor has direct contribution in the use of natural resources and capital elements in agricultural sector; the labor is used more intensively in the unit area in agricultural activities compared to other sectors; transfer of labor is realized from the agricultural sector to other sectors; agricultural labor composes the source of the hidden unemployment and structural unemployment. In addition, labor in agricultural sector should be classified in order to determine the types of labor force to be used in data formation for public institutions / organizations and to facilitate access to the correct decision processes in the projects and policies to be created by contributing to obtaining reliable statistical data. In line with those determined objectives, this study was carried out to determine the types of labor force in the agricultural sector, to combine the conceptual definitions made and to provide semantic integrity in the literature.

scholarly journals Development of integration processes in the agricultural sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 00116
Author(s):  
Farit Mukhametgaliev ◽  
Landysh Sitdikova ◽  
Farida Mukhametgalieva ◽  
Alina Battalova
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Industrial Chain ◽  
Population Reduction ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Organization Of Production ◽  
Positive Results

The relevance of the issue is due to the need to improve the efficiency of the agro-industrial complex by uniting enterprises engaging in production, processing and sale of agricultural products. The aim is to develop recommendations on integration processes in the agricultural sector in order to improve the efficiency of the agricultural sector. The article discusses the objective nature of integration processes in modern agribusiness, identifies assumptions for creating integrated enterprises, such as unstable financial situations, worn-out material and technical resources, irrational organization of production, a low level of management and labor economics. The article describes a positive example of integrated formations in the Republic of Tatarstan, positive results of the activities of agro-industrial formations, which include the use of abandoned land and agricultural facilities, modernization of production using new equipment and technologies, increasing the attractiveness of agricultural labor, employment rate and incomes of the rural population, reduction of transaction costs in the agro-industrial chain, development of the agro-holding model as an effective interaction of enterprises of different agricultural sectors.

scholarly journals Aging of Agricultural Labor Force and Technical Efficiency in Tea Production: Evidence from Meitan County, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Liu ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Ruifa Hu ◽  
Xiaoke Zhu ◽  
Jinyang Cai
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Tea Production ◽  
The Impact

While the aging of agricultural labor force and its impact on agricultural production have been attracting extensive attention, little is known about the relationship between aging of agricultural labor force and technical efficiency in tea production. Using the stochastic frontier analysis and cross-sectional survey data covering 241 tea-producing farmers in Meitan County in China, this study attempts to investigate the impact of aging of tea-producing farmers on technical efficiency in tea production in the mountainous areas of southwestern China. The results show that the average technical efficiency in tea production is 0.581, implying a great room for improving technical efficiency in tea production in Meitan County. While there might exist an inverted U-shaped relationship between farmers’ age and technical efficiency, the aging of tea-producing farmers would exert negative impact on technical efficiency in tea production. In addition, rural–urban migration experience, number of household laborers, distance from home to village committee, and township location are also significantly related with technical efficiency. The findings in this study are proved to be robust. Hence, several policy implications for meeting the challenges from aging of agricultural labor force and improving technical efficiency in tea production in the mountainous areas of southwestern China are also discussed.

scholarly journals Institutional bases of activation of export-oriented activities of agrarian enterprises of ukraine under conditions of deepening of eurointegration

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Mykola Zhuk ◽  
Yurii Bilyansky
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
European Market ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Food Complex

The subject of the research is the theoretical, methodological and practical basis for studying the impact of the institutional environment on the efficiency of export-oriented production of enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy and the activation of their foreign economic activities in the European agricultural market. The purpose of the work is to develop theoretical foundations and practical recommendations for the implementation of an effective system of institutional support for the activation of export activities of agricultural enterprises in the European development vector. Methodological basis of the article is general scientific methods of theoretical and empirical research, special methods of scientific knowledge. To conduct the research, the following methods were used: dialectical, economic-statistical, balance, normative, economic-mathematical, economic comparisons, grouping, graphic, system-structural analysis and synthesis. Results of work. The article examines the impact of the institutional environment on the development of export-oriented activities of domestic agricultural enterprises in the conditions of deepening the European integration process. The author suggests measures of an institutional and organizational-economic nature aimed at strengthening the export potential of enterprises of the agricultural and food complex and increasing their competitiveness in the common market of agricultural products of the EU member States. The field of application of results. The results and conclusions can be used in the development of a strategy for entering the European market of agricultural products for enterprises of the agricultural and food complex, training specialists in the field of international economic relations and foreign trade. Conclusions. Analysis of the current state of export-oriented activities of Ukrainian enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy indicates the need for structural and institutional transformation of the system of organization of foreign economic activity of economic entities. In the context of the deepening of the European integration process, the functioning of enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy is significantly affected by the internal and external institutional and market environment. Accordingly, this is reflected in the economic indicators of their activities and the competitiveness of Ukrainian agricultural products in the European market. Institutional conditions and factors that slow down the entry of Ukrainian agricultural enterprises to the European market are the following: imperfection of the national system of land market relations, lack of effective institutions of ownership and land use; inefficient structural and institutional policy of the state in the agricultural sphere; low level of institutional support, stimulation and regulation of export-oriented activities of agricultural enterprises; non-compliance of domestic agricultural and food products with European requirements and standards; imperfect quality control system for production, storage, transportation of food products, etc.

scholarly journals Impact of farm protectionism on the use of agricultural inputs in Chile

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0107
Author(s):  
Gabriel Pino ◽  
Ariel Soto-Caro
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Agricultural Protectionism ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Despite evidence highlighting the multiple benefits that liberalization can have in the agricultural sector, agricultural protectionism is abundant, especially in developing countries. Chile provides an interesting case on this topic because it implemented an aggressive liberalization in the agricultural sector during the 1970s and 1980s. This paper analyzes the impact of farm protectionism on the use of agricultural inputs in Chile. To do this, we estimated partial elasticities of substitution by incorporating government protectionism as a factor for agricultural production. Our findings reveal that increased protectionism decreases agricultural labor and promotes the use of fixed capital. In contrast, protectionism has no effect on the use of working capital and land. This information shows a clear transference from the government to farmers. Furthermore, our results are useful for anticipating the effects that varying levels of government protectionism can have on the Chilean agricultural sector over time.

scholarly journals Development of export-oriented agriculture in Russia in the context of a pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 08007
Author(s):  
E.I. Pozubenkova ◽  
I.E. Shpagina ◽  
O.V. Lavrina ◽  
N.M. Guryanova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Supply Logistics ◽  
The Impact

Given the turbulence of the external and internal environment caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the agro-industrial complex is one of the few sectors that continued to show growth during the crisis of the global and Russian economies. Factors of the stability of the agro-indus-trial complex development were not only active state support, introduction of innovations, use of import substitution programs, but the fact that the sector did not stop working during the Covid19 pandemic. This has had an impact on the change in the Russian foreign trade system in terms of the geography of supplies, their volumes, and the commodity structure. The agricultural sector has become export-oriented and, in the sales structure, the traditional group of leaders, which include various types of raw materials for energetics, has given way to the sale of agricultural products. The article analyzes statistical information on foreign trade in agricultural products, concludes about the impact on the agricultural trade balance of the corona-virus pandemic, the ruble devaluation, changes in consumer demand and gap in international supply logistics due to restrictions on movement be-tween countries.

scholarly journals IMPACTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD PRICES, AND FOOD SECURITY IN MOROCCO

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 973-988
Author(s):  
Houria ET-TOUILE ◽  
Fatima ARIB
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
World Health ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
The Impact

With the global health crisis related to the new coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), the thorny issue of food security has arisen with force, especially with shortages of certain products on the markets, soaring prices, and sometimes even stock-outs. The covid-19 pandemic has led to a global economic crisis that has called into question the stability ensuring global food security. So, the present paper aims to analyze and discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on agriculture, food supply, and food security in Morocco. Toward this end, data provided by the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been analyzed, as well as studies conducted and published on the subject. The findings indicate that the Covid 19 pandemic has ensued several negative effects, which have directly and indirectly threatened Moroccan food security. It severely affected the agricultural sector which contributes significantly to GDP, due to suspension of agricultural activities, restriction of trade in agricultural commodities, and agricultural labor.  Also, It has primarily affected food imports due to the dependence on food importation and has impacted food supply chains, as the shutdown and closing of some stores severely disrupted the supply chain (transportation, storage, and distribution), resulting in food insufficiency in many far areas. Globally, food security in Morocco has demonstrated its resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the agricultural strategy put in place, the market was regularly supplied and the availability of products was ensured in all the cities of the Kingdom. Finally, based on the findings, we have suggested some recommendations that would help boost sustainable food security.

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