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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 4
Written by Kristína MANDALOVÁ, Marián KOTRLA, Martin PRČÍK

The Slovak Republic is divided into 8 regions according to NUTS 3. From the total area of Slovakia, the agricultural land occupies 49.16% of the territory, which is 2401293 ha. The most productive land suitable for growing selected agricultural commodities is located in the regions of Western Slovakia. In terms of agricultural land it is undoubtedly extremely important to understanding the potential of economic profitability of the production units by growing different crops. The basic methods for the analysis of the market in selected agricultural commodities were mainly the situation and outlook reports from National Agricultural and Food Centre Branch: Research Institute of Agriculture and Food Economics and materials from Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Slovak republic. The paper evaluates the use of land with regard to crop production, particularly of selected commodities - grains and oilseeds during the period 2001 to 2016 and a market analysis of these commodities in Slovakia. The crop production is essential for the sustainable development of the country and its regions while meeting the needs of the population and stabilizing of the living conditions. The volume of the total grains and oilseeds supply in Slovakia sufficiently covers domestic consumption and part of the production can also be exported outside Slovakia because it does not foresee significant changes in the development of the different directions of grain utilization in domestic agri-food market. On the basis of the analysis, it is possible to note the lagging of agricultural production in Slovakia by half to the average of the EU countries.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 14 ISSUE 3
Written by Raluca Georgiana LADARU, Silviu BECIU

The paper is based on a research that aimed to make some assumptions regarding wine consumer preferences in Romania. The research method was survey made through questionnaires administered to a relevant number of respondents. In order to establish the main goals of this research, we considered aspects as: identification of purchase and consume frequency of wine, the preferred consumer’s places for serving or buying wine, the average quantity of wine that is usually bought, the level of price accepted by the consumer, the type of wine preferred by consumer in relation with wine color and taste, the preferred package, time spent for wine shopping, preferred producers, brands, grape variety, quality influence in choosing wine categories, identifying wine consumers profile. The analysis and interpretation of results revealed that decision factors in buying wine are the type of the wine, the price, followed by color, packaging and advertisement.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 2
Written by Iuliana CETINA, Dumitru GOLDBACH, NataliaMANEA, Loredana POPESCU

The article presents the main agro-food marketing strategies (product, price, placement, promotion) based on two researches (qualitative among producers and key decision makers, and quantitative among urban consumers) in South Muntenia Region. The main objective of the research was to determine the extent to which the small traditional producers have the willingness to group together in an associative form. The research shows that traditional manufacturers encounter barriers to the valorisation-marketing of products to end-users. At the same time, urban propensity to traditional products has been reported. Based on the conclusions drawn from the qualitative research, a model has been developed that includes the main dimensions of sustainable development (economic, ecological, social and cultural dimension). Qualitative research has led to the hypotheses for quantitative research, which was based on a questionnaire consisting of dichotomic and multichatal questions. Following the research, a set of strategies were proposed to support traditional producers. Research has been limited to the South-Muntenia area, with research being extended at national level in the future.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 2
Written by GÜL M., ÖKTEM H.

The purpose of the study was to examine the marketing structure of sour cherry, to reveal the marketing problems of the sour cherry in the region and to give suggestions to improve the sour cherry production in the region and Turkey. The main material of this study was the primary data to be obtained by survey method from the farmers who produced sour cherry in Sultandağı and Çay districts of Afyonkarahisar and Akşehir and Doğanhisar districts of Konya province. In addition, data was obtained from intermediaries in the marketing channel. Stratified sampling method (Neyman Method) was used to determine the number of samples to be surveyed. The sample size represented the main population was calculated as 138 farmers. Afyonkarahisar province is in the first place with a share of 22% in Turkey sour cherry production. Konya follows Afyonkarahisar with a share of approximately 16%. In the region, 63.04% of farmers was conventional production and 36.96% of them was organic production. The most important problem that producers face with the sour cherry cultivation was the low price. The prices of the sour cherry were determined by the companies. Most of the sour cherry producers sell commissions. The most powerful factor in choosing sour cherry cultivation was the preferred industrial product. Consumption as fresh was very low. The most important threat to sour cherry production in the region is the climate. The frost occurred during the flowering period reduces the yield. The following improvements can be suggested for the production of sour cherry to a better position: increasing the number of facilities processing in the region, increasing the awareness of farmers about producer organization.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 1
Written by Tarek FOUDA, Samy BADR, Asaad DERBALA, Adel ELMETWALLI, Abouelmagd SALAMAH

The Main objectives for this work design a small hydrogen gas production unit and maximize hydrogen gas from water. A small unit was designed from stainless steel with a number of cells (9, 11, 13, 15 cells), cell distance (1.5, 1.0, 0.5 mm), duration of unit operation (15, 30, 45, 60 min) and Type of water (Acidic water and Saline water (sea water in particular)). The experimental results of hydrogen cells production unit are presented. It is used for electrical analysis of two types of water (acidic - saline). The results obtained showed that the highest production of hydrogen energy was observed with (15 cells) number was (5.12 kWh) at working time (60 min), distance between cells (0.5 mm), cell temperature (46.7°C) and water temperature (56.1°C) in the presence of saline water. At same time the lowest hydrogen energy observed with number of cells (15 cells) number was (2.606 kWh), working time (15 min), distance between cells (1.5 mm), cell temperature was (35.5°C) and water temperature was (31.2°C) in the presence of acidic water. Total energy was increased by 96.47%, increasing number of cells and lack of distance between cells.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 2
Written by Maria SPONTE (PIȘTALU)

In this paper are presented the priorities for the Romanian agricultural sector for the period 2014 – 2020. European Union has allocated important founds for the Romanian rural that account more than 8 billion Euro. The most important priorities are increasing competitiveness of the agro-food sector through investments, diversification of economy in the rural area as well as sustainable rural development.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 4
Written by Roman STUPEN, Zoriana RYZHOK

Key problems of the unstable development of regional economic systems and the weakening of the sustainable economic growth in the regions are revealed at the present stage of the national economy functioning and the economic reforms implementation in Ukraine. The methodological approach to the sustainable social and economic development of the region as to the effective land resources use is proposed. The mechanisms of land resources effective use in accordance with the policy of sustainable social and economic development of the region are substantiated. The main directions of the regions problems solution on the way to ensuring efficient market-oriented and ecologically balanced regional development of agricultural land use are determined.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 3
Written by Oleksii SHKURATOV

The article is devoted to research and development of methods for estimation of ecological safety in the agricultural area of the region's economy based on a comprehensive analysis of the main criteria and indicators that allow us to make motivated management decisions to prevent environmental threats and risks in this area. The methodology provides for the account of the integral index of ecological safety in the agricultural, which is defined as the sum of the normalized values of indicators (characterized by the corresponding indicator), taking into account the respective weighting coefficients. It is assumed that the difference in the dimensions of the parameters to be measured is eliminated by normalizing (transferring them to a dimensionless form). The estimation of the level of ecological safety in the agricultural of the regions of Ukraine has been carried out on the basis of the developed methodology. The distribution of the territory of Ukraine has been carried out on the following levels of ecological safety: stable, unsatisfactory, critical, crisis and dangerous. In general, the realization of the proposed methodology makes it possible to identify the features and trends of the ecological situation in the agricultural area of the region's economy in order to level out environmental contradictions in the form of a deviation between the actual and target state of agroecosystems in the process of balanced development of agriculture.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 4
Written by Olimpia PANDIA, Ion SĂRĂCIN, Ștefania Eliza TĂNASIE

The fact that the seeds of some forest species after maturation become profoundly dormant, leading to germination and emergence in the second year after planting, requires some investigation undertaken in order to reduce profound dormancy, considering that mechanical degrading of seminal coatings is a difficult operation which can lead to injuring the endosperm. In their turn, mechanical treatments can provide fast germination imbibitions, but done incorrectly, they can reduce germination potency. This paper presents a mechanical method for reducing profound dormancy by degradation of the per carp and seed coat permeability for rapid penetration of water into the seed, the method to apply the mechanical treatments under various conditions of time, temperature and humidity.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 4
Written by Udegbunam Edwin CHINONSO, Onu Inyanda JUSTICE

This is time series paper modelling Nigeria’s urban and rural inflation using monthly CPI data from January 2001 to December 2015. Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change overtime in the prices of consumer items, that is, goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Box-Jenkins ARIMA Model was used to model 180 monthly CPI data and was forecasted to 29 CPI monthly data which actually fitted with two quarterly CPI data. The model identified that the data are dependent and not identically distributed, both the mean and variance are increasing through time. ARIMA (0, 1, 0), ARIMA (0, 1, 13) were selected and proved to be correct, residuals were showing insignificant auto-correlated residual and followed a normal distribution with mean zero and constant variance. This research finds of high inflation in urban and rural areas of Nigeria which serves as an indicator to the economy situation of Nigeria.

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