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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 4
Written by Camelia MĂNESCU , Ada-Flavia CRISTINA , Teodor MATEOC, Gheorghe Sebastian SÎRB, David SAIDA, Nicoleta MATEOC-SÎRB

In Romania, the area covered by forest has decreased in the last period of time (28%), is currently below the average of developed countries in the European Union (40%). Meanwhile, a series of extreme weather phenomena have increased, representing the greatest threat facing humanity and the environment. In the current paper the authors analyse the distribution of Romania green cover on geographical areas, trying to find solutions to minimize the existing imbalances. Expanding forest areas should be a priority for ecological restoration because Romania has low forest coverage areas. Research shows that there is an unbalanced distribution of green coverage of Romania in the current climate change, which requires the plantation of protective forest curtains.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 2
Written by Jonel SUBIĆ, Biljana GRUJIĆ, Marijana JOKSIMOVIĆ

Although agriculture is a significant activity for every country, many are frightened out of being engaged in this activity, due to insufficient importance given to it. This paper will show three indicators, by which can be measured the significance of agriculture for a certain country, and these are: the share of rural population in total population, the share of employed population in agriculture in total number of employees and the share of agriculture in creating a gross domestic product (GDP). It’s also an important indicator of agricultural share in foreign trade exchange. The obtained data will be shown for the period 2012-2015 and commented in accordance with the obtained values. Processed results did provide the following results (the change index 2015/2012): the share of rural population in total population was decreased for 2.5 percentage points (p.p.), the share of population employed in agriculture in total number of employed population was decreased for 2 p.p., while a chain index of GDP share in agriculture is at extremely low level and in the year 2015, in regard to the year 2014, was lower for 7.5 p.p. Declining values of indicators only point out to a low level of significance of agriculture for Serbia, which is characterized by favourable natural factors for farming. An indicator „the share of agriculture, forestry and fishery in total export of Serbia“ is the only one which records the increasing values in the period 2013-2015 for 1.2 p.p., but in regard to the initial year 2012, is yet lower for 1.5 p.p. The conclusion is drawn, by using the mathematicalstatistical methods and research methods, that agricultural activity for Serbia is not sufficiently important.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 3
Written by L'ubica RUMANOVSKÁ, Jarmila LAZÍKOVÁ, Ivan TAKÁČ, Anna BANDLEROVÁ, Zuzana LAZÍKOVÁ

The paper points out the regional disparities of the individual farmers in Slovakia and explains the notion of individual farmer according to the Slovak legal regulation. The interests doing business in agriculture as individual farmers is renewed. However, the related legal regulation which is very strict and vaguest needs to be amending mainly on the fact that some rules were created for the purposes of the Czechoslovakia. In spite of the fact that the number of individual farmers has been increased, there are proved some regional disparities in Slovakia. The most individual farmers are concentrated in the Bratislava, the Nitra, the Trnava and the Košice regions. In the Prešov and the Trenčín regions, there are minimum individual farmers. There is a positive spatial autocorrelation and the individual farmers are more concentrated on the fertile lowlands. Therefore the rural development policy should take into account the regional disparities among the regions and counties and support the role of individual farmers according to the priorities of a particular region.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Ni Nyoman Reni SUASIH, I. Nyoman Mahaendra YASA

Rice is Indonesian’s staple food and indicator of food sovereignty. Farmers could be a price maker, but rice farmers are poor. This indicates that the problem exists on post harvest rice distribution channels. It is important to analyse the rice distribution system to formulate the government policies. The purpose of this paper is to know the distribution system and margin share of post harvest rice in Indonesia. Also, to know the determinant factors of farmers bargaining power in the post harvest rice distribution process. Data analyse use descriptive analysis (elasticity of price transmission) and literature review. The supporting data used are data from agriculture statistics of Indonesia. The results show that the market faced by all rice distribution market players is the imperfect or uncompetitive actor, i.e. there is monopoly and oligopoly power in the distribution system, and the prevailing distribution system is not efficient yet. There are internal and external factors that influence the bargaining power of rice farmers. The post harvest rice distribution chain needs to be shortened to make it more efficient. To improve the bargaining position of farmers from a monopsony condition is to establish a farmers institution.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 4
Written by Kingsley Onyekachi ONYELE, Eberechi Bernadine NWOKOCHA

The subject of budgeting in Nigeria has been a yearly affair which though good in content, but without an appreciable result. Consequently, this study examined the effect of capital flight on budget implementation in Nigeria. To achieve this broad objective, co-integration test and vector error correction were employed for the analysis using time series data spanning from 1986 to 2014. The dependent variable (budget implementation) was proxied by aggregate government expenditure, while the independent variables were capital flight, external debt, government revenue, economic openness, and real exchange rate. The co-integration results revealed that a long run equilibrium relationship existed among the variables. The error correction term indicated a rapid realignment to long run convergence by approximately 87 percent. The results further showed that capital flight was positive and significant in influencing government expenditure in Nigeria. Also, the Wald test showed that there is a significant short run causal relationship between capital flight and government expenditure in Nigeria. Based on these findings, the study recommended inter alia that government should set up a vibrant monitoring team to ensure that funds allocated for various projects are used efficiently.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 14 ISSUE 3
Written by Chibuzor NWACHUKWU, Chima EZEH, Ifeanyi NWACHUKWU

The study examined the influence of commercialization on food security status of cassava producing households in Abia State, Nigeria. It specifically assessed the current level of commercialization among the households and estimated the food security status of the households operating at different levels of commercialization. The study employed multistage sampling technique in the selection of location and respondents from whom data and information were elicited using pretested and structured questionnaire. In the course of data analysis, descriptive statistics, household commercialization index and food security index were used. The current level of commercialization revealed that a typical cassava producing household sold on the average 51 percent of its output with total sales ranging from 5.60% to 90.00%, implying that the most commercialized cassava producing household sold 90.00% of the gross value of its total cassava production. More so, the food security status of the households at different levels of commercialization depicted that households operating at a low level of commercialization were few and there was a slight disparity between the proportion of those that were food secure and those that were food insecure while the majority seemed to operate at a medium level with more of the people attaining food security. On the overall, the proportion of households that were food insecure is more than those that were food secure as indicated by the food insecurity incidence. On the basis of the findings, the study recommended that government and other stakeholders should shoulder the responsibility of developing new initiatives that will transform the smallholders from subsistence oriented to market – oriented production system among others.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 2
Written by Mohamed Samir KHALEL, Mohamed Helmy YACOUNT, Ayman Abdel-Mohsen HASSAN, Amr Mohamed SHWERAB, Dorina MOCUTA, Adrian TUREK-RAHOVEANU

This study was conducted to evaluate the influence of daily supplementation of carob Pods (Ceratonia Siliqua L.) at the rate of 0, 25, 50 and 100 gm on digestibility coefficients, rumen fermentation, degradation kinetics, microbial protein synthesis, some blood parameters, antioxidant activity and lambs growth performances. Three rams were consigned for the digestibility trials, while other three females with rumen fistula were used for the in situ trials. Fourty lambs (6-8 months) were used for feeding trials (90 days). Data showed that daily supplement with 50gm carob pods had higher digestion coefficients, lower rumen NH3-N, but higher TVFA's concentration, and microbial-N synthesis compared with other supplementation rats. In addition to more effective degradability of DM and CP, feed and economic efficiencies and daily weight gain. Supplementation with 100 g carob pods was the worst one. Insignificant differences were found for almost blood constitutes among the experimental diets, they were in the normal ranges. So, it could be concluded to daily supplement sheep with 50gm of carob pods in order to achieve good productive performance of lambs. However, it still needs to carry long term trials on the field of meat or milk production.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 14 ISSUE 4
Written by Andrei-Marius SANDU

This study aims to analyze the bovine meat and milk sector for the period 2007-2013. In the analyzed period, Romania has benefited from EU funding through the National Rural Development Programme 2007-2013. In this programme there were measures that addressed exclusively to the animal husbandry sector in Romania. This paper presents the results of the analysis on bovine production of meat, milk and livestock in Romania, but also on the price and impact that the European Funds implementation had on them.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 3
Written by Abiona Grace BOLAJI, Ajao BIODUN, Idowu YOMI

The study examined the influence of Human Resources functions on Organizational Culture in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 146 respondents with the use of a well-structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Results revealed the mean age of the respondents were 39.2 years, majority (58.9%) were males, 89.1% were married and mean income of the employees were #81,610 per month. Major human resources functions that influenced organizational culture identified were: recruitment and selection (x̅=3.67), performance appraisal (x̅=3.67), career planning (x̅=3.58), training and development (x̅=3.36) and compensation administration (x̅=3.25). Also, employees abide with the organisation culture based on the way they preserved and maintained by the employees (x̅=3.05) and code of conduct were adhered to in the studied organisation (x̅=3.05). More so, significant association existed between marital status (χ2=44.21, p≤0.05), educational status (χ2=71.03, p≤0.05), age (r=0.079, p≤0.005), years of working experience (r=0.031, p≤0.005), human resources strategies (r=0.389, p≤0.005) and organizational culture. The study concluded that employees adhere to the code and conduct of the organisation. Modernized equipment for effective job delivery is highly recommended.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Nicoleta OLTENACU, Valentina GAVRILA, Elena LASCAR

Wheat is the most important cereal plant cultivated on largest surfaces due to its importance as a human food and also for animal feeding. Wheat has a high content of carbohydrates and proteins and a balanced the ratio between these items. Wheat quality is determined by the qualities of gluten such as: viscosity, elasticity, extensibility, resistance to action of the proteolytic ferments in the fermentation process, etc.. Besides production, which is the quantitative indicator, the protein content of the grains is the most important qualitative factor which gives the value of the utilized output. For this reason, this paper aimed to study the behaviour of six Premium Wheat varieties with early precocity in the soil and climate conditions of Calarasi area,Romania, during 2016. The analysis was focused on some qualitative indicators as follows: the content of protein and gluten, the hectolitre weight and the mass of 1,000 grains. All the determinations proved a high quality of grains and also the production performance of all the six Wheat varieties used in this study.

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