Purpose. The purpose of the study – to explain features disclosure transaction costs in accounting agricultural enterprises, taking into account peculiarities shadow economy; identify main factors that lead and make suggestions for improving their accounting. 
 Methodology / approach. methods used this are: statistical analysis assess dynamics cost structure enterprises; graphical analytic...

Disease recording of cattle is compulsory in Sweden and Norway. Sweden and Denmark also have mandatory disease recording for swine, whereas Finland and Norway only have compulsory recording of infectious diseases. Both compulsory and voluntary systems are data based, the first ones developed in the 1970's. Disease recording at pig slaughtering is somewhat older. The veterinary practitioner, and...

Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the tropics. How to achieve sustainable intensification of food production systems in tropical regions that are challenged by ongoing climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity is a matter of debate. Here we h...

Economic weights (EW) for the Slovak dairy production system were calculated in Holstein, Slovak Simmental, and Slovak Pinzgau breeds under a direct support regime using a bio-economic approach. EW were calculated for three scenarios (A: without agricultural subsidies; B: agricultural subsidies included in revenues and C: agricultural subsidies included in feeding costs). Quota-free milk produc...

Foreword At its recent plenary meeting, the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) discussed the issues surrounding the implementation of the Biosafety Protocol (BSP). During that discussion, IPC Members expressed grave concerns that the potential implications for the agricultural trade system, in particular for importing and developing countries, were not well documented ...