A comparative analysis of organic and conventional farmers in the Czech Republic

Krause, Josef; Machek, Ondřej

doi:10.17221/161/2016-agricecon

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“…Biodynamic farms had the lowest total costs, as well as the lowest operating revenue and profit. Krause and Machek (2018) compared 291 organic and 4045 conventional farmers in 2009-2013 to study financial differences. As organic farming relies more on mechanical rather than chemical protection, their input costs are lower, but their labor cost is higher than those of the conventional system.…”

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Comparative Economics of Conventional, Organic, and Alternative Agricultural Production Systems

Durham

Mizik

2021

Economies

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Agricultural production systems are a composite of philosophy, adoptability, and careful analysis of risks and rewards. The two dominant typologies include conventional and organics, while biotechnology (GM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) represent situational modifiers. We conducted a systematic review to weigh the economic merits—as well as intangibles through an economic lens—of each standalone system and system plus modifier, where applicable. Overall, 17,485 articles were found between ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, with 213 initially screened based on putative relevance. Of those, 82 were selected for an in-depth analysis, with 63 ultimately used. Economically, organic generally outperformed conventional systems. This is largely due to their lower production costs and higher market price. However, organic farms face lower yields, especially in the fruit, vegetable, and animal husbandry sectors. With that said, organic farming can provide significant local environmental benefits. Integrated pest management (IPM) is a potentiator of either core system. As a risk reduction and decision-making framework, it is labor intensive. However, this can be offset by input reductions without yield penalty compared to a conventional baseline. Biotechnology is a rapidly emerging production system, notably in developing countries. The use of GM crops results in lower production cost and higher yields. As a conventional modifier, its major advantage is scale-neutrality. Thus, smaller and lower income farmers may achieve higher gross margin. The main source of environmental benefits is reduced pesticide use, which implies a decreased need for fuel and labor. Barring external influences such as subsidies and participation in prescriptive labeling programs, farmers should focus on an a la carte approach (as opposed to discrete system adoption) to optimize their respective enterprises.

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Comparative Economics of Conventional, Organic, and Alternative Agricultural Production Systems

Durham

Mizik

2021

Economies

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“…The practice of farming, focused on the production of organic products, proves that organic farmers do not earn more income due to their higher production costs including labor, insurance and marketing charges (Uematsu, Mishra, 2012). Profitability of organic farms is very dependent on higher prices of production (Krause, Machek, 2018). According to Nieberg's and Offermann's research, it was easier for the organic farms to achieve higher prices for the crop production, but more difficult for the livestock production (Nieberg, Offermann, 2003).…”

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Theoretical bases of formation and development of agricultural organic production in Ukraine in modern economic conditions

Fedchyshyn¹

2020

Ekonomika poljoprivrede

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The article discusses the current state of the global market for organic products and the main trends of organic production in Ukraine. The analysis of the main indicators of the leading countries in the production and sale of organic products is carried out. Based on a comparison of the indicators of the Ukrainian market for organic products with world leaders, it was concluded that the Ukrainian market for organic products needs: the formation and implementation of a national management model, improving legislation and the structure of certification organizations, drawing up a program of financial, information and marketing support for domestic producers.

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“…Growing purchase prices of agricultural output determine the increase of value added and income (Sapolaite, 2011). Price is one of the important factors, influencing the economic results of farms, especially in the case of organic farms, as they enable the farms to achieve higher prices of agricultural products (Berentsen et al, 2012;Krause and Machek, 2018). Therefore, the purchase prices of selected farming system outputs are analysed.…”

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“…The periods under consideration were 2014-2018, i.e. a fiveyear period, since this period has been taken into consideration by similar research works (Krause and Machek, 2018), and non-market valuation overlaps the five-year period as well.…”

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“…Generally, conventional farming supports the society mostly with the provisioning services or market outputs, and is usually considered as a producer of negative impacts (Zhukova et al, 2017;Wagner et al, 2017). Meanwhile, organic farming is usually considered as a provider of supporting and regulating services due to its low input during the production process (Jespersen et al, 2017;Krause & Machek, 2018), which are usually considered as non-market outputs. These effects are not accounted for in the market and are fairly difficult to quantify.…”

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Integrated Assessment of Farming System Outputs: Lithuanian Case Study

Novikova

Rocchi

Startienė

2020

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Agriculture provides people with different market outputs. However, market outputs are not the only kind of output provided by agriculture: non-market outputs are produced jointly with the market ones in an agroecosystem. All the outputs produced by agriculture can be classified as the ecosystem services. The magnitude and levels of farming outputs depend on different technologies of production; i.e. different farming systems generate different outputs. Assessing the output of agriculture is quite simple in terms of the market value, but not so easy for non-market outputs. Moreover, evaluation of market and non-market outputs is usually performed separately. The objectives of this paper are to present an integrated evaluation framework for the outputs, marketable and non-marketable, associated with different farming systems. For the case study, we proposed the evaluation of the market and non-market output, associated with milk production in Lithuania, considering both organic and conventional production. In terms of the market evaluation, the results have shown that organic farming produced a value 1.24 times higher than conventional, while the valuation result associated with the non-market output is 83 time higher in organic than in conventional one. The study is the first attempt to develop a framework for integrated evaluation of farming outputs, taking into account market and non-market outputs and considering different types of farming systems.

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A comparative analysis of organic and conventional farmers in the Czech Republic

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Comparative Economics of Conventional, Organic, and Alternative Agricultural Production Systems

Comparative Economics of Conventional, Organic, and Alternative Agricultural Production Systems

Theoretical bases of formation and development of agricultural organic production in Ukraine in modern economic conditions

Integrated Assessment of Farming System Outputs: Lithuanian Case Study

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