scholarly journals Opportunities for the development of Russian crop production in the context of global challenges

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Alexey Valerianovich Golubev
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Russian Agriculture ◽  
The Face

          It is shown that in the context of global challenges, the economy is being reformatted in favor of vital industries, including the agri-food sector. The apparently prosperous state of Russian agriculture and, above all, crop production, which demonstrates long-term growth of production even against the background of slowing down the dynamics of the domestic economy, is by no means unconditional. The development of the industry takes place in conditions of limited reproduction, largely due to the exhaustion of natural, labor, material, technical and financial resources. Such a paradox is fraught with the collapse of crops and problems in ensuring national food security. However, Russian agriculture, which has learned to survive in a crisis situation, with an effective agricultural policy, is capable of more intensive development in the face of global cataclysms. These prospects are connected with the possibility of a sharp increase in the production of natural products in vast territories that have preserved relict shades of agriculture; with the introduction of once abandoned agricultural land into circulation. The conditions that need to be created for the implementation of global competitive advantages of crop production are shown. The semantic analysis of leading publications is carried out, which allows identifying trends in promising world research in agricultural Sciences.

scholarly journals Agricultural products: changes and trends in the development of its production

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (91) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
M. Shulskyi ◽  
R. Komaniak
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Made In

The article analyzes the production of agricultural products by economic entities of Lviv region during the period of 2000–2017. Changes in the production of volumes of products by agrarian business entities during the period under review reflect certain trends in the areas of their functioning. Thus, in particular, as a result of the research, it was established that the volumes of agricultural production produced by all categories of farms increased in 2017 compared to 2000 by 40.9%, and from 2016 by 6.1%, including: crop production, respectively, in %: 77.2 and 7.7 and livestock production – by 4.1; 3.5 The study of the volumes of agrarian production in the context of the main producers shows that the agricultural enterprises have significantly increased production, and the households have made minor changes. At the same time, there were solid trends in the dynamical increase in the share of agricultural production produced by agricultural enterprises and the decrease in its production by households. Appropriate trends also occurred in the productive use of agricultural land (production per 100 hectares of agricultural land). Thus, agricultural enterprises on these indicators considerably exceed the economy of the population. The above data in Table 2 confirms the specific digital indicators. On this occasion, we note that when in 2000 agricultural enterprises produced agrarian products per 100 hectares of agricultural land, UAH thous.: 98.3; including: crop production 75.6 and livestock production 22.7, then in 2017, these indicators respectively were: 1284.2; 889.9 and 391.3, or this increase for the analysis period was: times: 13.0; 11.8 and 17.2. As far as households are concerned, there is a slightly different trend: in 2017 in comparison with 2000 there were processes of reduction of these relative indicators and they made in 2017 when comparing their values with the level of 2000, respectively, %: 64.0; 80, and 49.5. Thus, the results of the conducted research indicate that in the agricultural production of Lviv region intensive development processes of large agrarian formations and slowing down of small farms. These positive trends will continue to evolve and will continue to develop until optimal relationships are established between large and small forms of management.

The agribusiness sector as a regional export opportunity: evidence for the Vojvodina region

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Matkovski ◽  
Stanislav Zekić ◽  
Žana Jurjević ◽  
Danilo Đokić
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Policy Measures

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine if the agribusiness sector can be an initiator of export on the emerging markets. For this aim, we analyzed export opportunities for the region of Vojvodina, the region in Serbia with the most potential for agribusiness.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses the Comparative Advantage Index and the Index of Intra-industrial Integration to determine the region's level of comparative advantage and the market's level of integration on the main emerging markets.FindingsThe results show that this region has the most competitive advantages in crop production – primarily in cereals and industrial plants – but the situation is not favorable for livestock production. Because of this, comparative advantage should be used as a factor for the growth of competitiveness in the sectors for which crop products are the raw material base. At the same time, agricultural policy measures should encourage more intensive agricultural production, which could create a better foundation for progress in the food industry.Research limitations/implicationsData collected on foreign trade at the level of statistical regions is not always reliable. Also, regional and local characteristics are specific to each country, so the ability to generalize conclusions is limited.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a useful review of the agri-food sector's competitiveness and determines which agri-food segments have competitive advantages. It is essential for policymakers to identify what determinants improve or degrade the competitiveness of the region's agri-food sector.Originality/valueSince there are a limited number of studies analyzing trends of competitiveness for the region's agri-food sector, the paper will contribute to filling this gap. Furthermore, the framework is conceptually innovative in identifying the determinants that create export opportunities for the region on the international market.

scholarly journals The Compounded Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic and Desert Locust Outbreak on Food Security and Food Supply Chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1063
Author(s):  
Zhitao Xu ◽  
Adel Elomri ◽  
Abdelfatteh El Omri ◽  
Laoucine Kerbache ◽  
Hui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
The Face ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Global Food

The COVID-19 pandemic and locust swarm outbreaks pose a significant threat to global food systems, causing severe disruptions in both local and international food supplies from farm to fork. The main objective of this study is to understand and identify the disruptions during the crises and create a map of how resilience can be established to recover and sustain the food supply chain (FSC) functions as well as food security. The detrimental impacts of the compound crises on the FSC are explored and the effects of the affected areas are estimated under optimistic and pessimistic scenarios. As a response to the disruption caused by the crisis in FSCs, reactive and proactive solutions are proposed to develop resilience at the food sector level. In the short term, the reactive solutions, consisting of smoothing the food demand, supply and delivery, and food production and processing, can be borrowed. In the long term, the proactive solutions can be conducted by developing multi-level short intertwined FSCs. Our comprehensive investigation of the resilience elements in diverse operations and potential strategies should contribute to the improvement of FSC resilience in the face of ongoing and growing threats.

scholarly journals Selected aspects of landscape ecology in process land consolidations

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Radka Jandurová
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ideal Tool ◽  
Land Exploitation ◽  
Area Development ◽  
The Ideal

Work called „Selected Aspects of landscape ecology in process land consolidations“ aims at providing analysis of some parts of the process of land consolidations. The goal of this work is to analyse and evaluate two aspects of landscape ecology – evaluating the development of the agricultural land creation and the face of a landscape.In order to achieve the above-mentioned goals a model area located in Zlín region was used in the thesis. It is an area registered as Kvítkovice near Otrokovice and a district of complex land consolidation called Kvítkovice.After thoroughly studying theoretical sources and performing field explorations and after their consequent synthesis, several analyses were carried out and methodical solution was suggested. By comparing time series of the model area development, i.e. by the so called evaluation of the intensity of changes of agricultural land exploitation, one can learn from the history and can look for the causes of current discrepancies. This evaluation can be used as the basis for finding the solution for current problems and land proposals.The above mentioned was complemented with the face of a landscape evaluation.The work concludes with stating that today it is necessary to rationally regulate landscape and exploit it in such a manner that it is productive, functional, active but also „beautiful“ for its users in the long term – land consolidations are the ideal tool for achieving that.

scholarly journals Problems of sour soil fertility increasing in Tomsk region

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. B. Sorokin ◽  
A. V. Gaag ◽  
Iu. V. Chudinova ◽  
E. A. Sirotina
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Acid Soils ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Fertilizer Efficiency ◽  
Improve Efficiency ◽  
Tomsk Region

The paper reveals the experimental results of long-term agroecological monitoring of agricultural land, conducted by Tomsk state agrochemical service, and experiments on designing the measures to improve efficiency of acidic arable land. In Tomsk region, 83% of arable land is acidic and the degree of acidity increases annually. Every 10 years weighted average pH is reduced on 0.1-0.2 units; the area of acidic soils increases. There is an urgent need for liming these soils in order to improve efficiency of agricultural production in Tomsk region. According to the calculations, the region requires 3,248 million tons of chalky flour. The region has its own large deposits of limestone, for example Kamenskoe (61 million tons), located 50 km from Tomsk, where it is possible to produce valuable meliorant, increasing efficiency of agricultural production. The authors make case, that for successful development of agricultural production in Tomsk region, it is necessary to design and implement long-term target program “Chalking of acid soils in Tomsk region”, which assumes compensation for agricultural producers for the part of the cost of liming; design and technical support of works; local production of limestone meliorants. Implementation of the acidic soil liming program will increase annual crop production in Tomsk region on 54.9 - 129.2 thousand tons of grain units, therefore it will increase annual income on 494.1 - 1162.8 million rubles (in 2017 prices), as well as ensure further increase in agricultural land fertility with high fertilizer efficiency, product quality and profitability.

THE ESSENCE, TYPES AND SEQUENCE OF THE MECHANISM FUNCTIONING FOR ENSURING THE ENTERPRISES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olexandr Yemelyanov ◽  
◽  
Ostap Ivanchyna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Adverse Environmental Conditions ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
High Level ◽  
Goals And Objectives

For many enterprises, ensuring their economic development is a required condition for maintaining a high level of economic efficiency for a long period of time. Economic development affords an opportunity to gain certain long-term competitive advantages that enable business entities to survive in the face of adverse environmental conditions. However, ensuring the economic development of enterprises is a difficult task, the solution of which requires the creation and operation of an effective mechanism for such provision. The development of ensuring mechanism to the economic development of enterprises should be based on appropriate theoretical principles. The research aim is to establish the essence, grouping of species and determining the sequence mechanism functioning of economic development of enterprises. It is shown that this mechanism can be interpreted as an ordered relationships set between the organizational structure elements of the enterprise economic development and between these elements and its external environment, carried out in the form of information flows, as well as the characteristics of these relationships (regarding their content and distribution methods) and procedures for their generation, which are based on the laws of rational business decisions. The mechanism types for ensuring the enterprises economic development were grouped by the number of criteria, duration of use, the coverage degree of the solved tasks, the amount of means used to achieve the objectives, the essence of algorithms for making business decisions and other features. The main stages of the mechanism functioning for ensuring the enterprises economic development were allocated, namely: goals and objectives formation of enterprise economic activity in the context of ensuring its economic development; procedures creation for developing business decisions; drawing up plans and programs for the implementation measures to ensure the enterprise economic development; making business decisions, monitoring their implementation and possible adjustments. The use proposed sequence of mechanism functioning of enterprise economic development in the practice of their activities increases the validity of economic decisions.

scholarly journals Determining Factors Of Long-Term Orientation Of Firm-Supplier Relationships: An Empirical Analysis In The Context Of The Spanish Agro-Food Sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús J. Cambra Fierro ◽  
Yolanda Polo Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Supply Function ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Supplier Relationships ◽  
Determining Factors

In an increasingly competitive and dynamic economic environment, the establishment, development and maintenance of enduring relationships between suppliers and customers is critical for both agents, and represents an important source of competitive advantages for those companies able to manage them adequately. Taking as reference the perspective of the customer, we consider that it is important for them to always work with a group of suppliers that have demonstrated an ability to adapt to their specific needs and thereby to reduce the level of uncertainty associated with their supply function. The current work, which takes the Spanish agro-food sector as framework of reference, analyzes the importance of certain factors in the long-term orientation of these relationships.

scholarly journals The relevance of uncertainty in future crop production for mitigation strategy planning

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1075-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Frieler ◽  
A. Levermann ◽  
J. Elliott ◽  
J. Heinke ◽  
A. Arneth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Impact Model ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Natural Carbon

Abstract. In order to achieve climate change mitigation, long-term decisions are required that must be reconciled with other societal goals that draw on the same resources. For example, ensuring food security for a growing population may require an expansion of crop land, thereby reducing natural carbon sinks or the area available for bio-energy production. Here, we show that current impact-model uncertainties pose an important challenge to long-term mitigation planning and propose a new risk-assessment and decision framework that accounts for competing interests. Based on cross-sectorally consistent simulations generated within the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) we discuss potential gains and limitations of additional irrigation and trade-offs of the expansion of agricultural land as two possible response measures to climate change and growing food demand. We describe an illustrative example in which the combination of both measures may close the supply demand gap while leading to a loss of approximately half of all natural carbon sinks. We highlight current limitations of available simulations and additional steps required for a comprehensive risk assessment.

Challenges, Concerns, and Perspectives for Poland's Energy Transition during Global COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Andrzej Lorkowski ◽  
Robert Jeszke
Keyword(s):  
Internal Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Transformation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
The Face ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Eu ◽  
At Home

The whole world is currently struggling with one of the most disastrous pandemics to hit in modern times – Covid-19. Individual national governments, the WHO and worldwide media organisations are appealing for humanity to universally stay at home, to limit contact and to stay safe in the ongoing fight against this unseen threat. Economists are concerned about the devastating effect this will have on the markets and possible outcomes. One of the countries suffering from potential destruction of this situation is Poland. In this article we will explain how difficult internal energy transformation is, considering the long-term crisis associated with the extraction and usage of coal, the European Green Deal and current discussion on increasing the EU 2030 climate ambitions. In the face of an ongoing pandemic, the situation becomes even more challenging with each passing day.

Impact of long-term trials on crop production research and education

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jolánkai ◽  
F. Nyárai ◽  
K. Kassai
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Ecological Models ◽  
Dynamic Databases ◽  
Production Research ◽  
Research And Education

Long-term trials have a twofold role in life sciences, acting as both live laboratories and public collections. Long-term trials are not simply scientific curios or the honoured relics of a museum, but highly valuable live ecological models that can never be replaced or restarted if once terminated or suspended. These trials provide valuable and dynamic databases for solving scientific problems. The present paper is intended to give a brief summary of the crop production aspects of long-term trials.

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