Author(s): Tatiana Svetlanská, Natália Turčeková
Title: Land use optimization with respect to alternative costs of crop production choices – Case of Slovakia
Source: International Scientific Days 2016. The Agri-Food Value Chain: Challenges for Natural Resources Management and Society
Document Type: Scientific paper
ISBN: 978-80-552-1503-7
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15414/isd2016.s13.08
Publisher: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra
PY, pages: 2016, 1066-1073
Published on-line: 2016-06-24
Language: eng
Abstract: The dominated agricultural sector in Slovakia is crop production. The major part of arable land is devoted to the cultivation of cereals (57 %), followed by feed crops (20 %) and industry crops (19 %). There is possible to identify 4 agricultural production areas, all with different soil conditions, altitude and structure of cultivated crops. Aim of this paper is to identify the optimal land allocation within the each production area among the selected major crops cultivated in Slovakia. Furthermore it deals with modeling the production potentials with respect to policy programmes and production choices aimed on improvement of profitability in less-favored areas. Objective is to provide land use alternative for each production area in order to maximize profit. The results suggest that the mountains areas have potentials to produce and supply feed crops, while lowlands are favorable for diverse crop production.
Keywords: production area, alternative costs, inputs, profit, economic optimization
JEL Classification: C61, Q10, Q15
Rights: Open Access :: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence
Toto dielo je publikované pod/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Plný text/Fulltext (PDF/418 kB)