On behalf of the Editorial Board of the Agricultural Economics – Czech journal, we invite submissions in the thematic issue:

“Bioeconomic strategies and systems as tools for achieving sustainable agriculture and rural development“.

Guest Editors for the thematic issue:
Associate Professor Eva Cudl�nov� (University of South Bohemia)
Professor Miloslav Lapka (University of South Bohemia)
Professor Sandy Rikoon (University of Missouri)

More information about the thematic issue can be found (download) here .

Manuscript submission information:
Authors are invited to submit original research articles related to the theme of the issue. Submissions must adhere to the journal's guidelines and be submitted through the online submission system. Authors must submit a cover letter, stating their intent to publish in the thematic issue, along with the manuscript. The inclusion of the manuscript in the thematic issue is at the discretion of the Editorial Board.
Manuscripts submitted to this thematic issue will be peer-reviewed and will be subjected to the standard manuscript handling fee.
Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Detailed Instructions for authors can be found on the journal homepage.

Important dates:
Submission open: May 1, 2024
Submission deadline: October 31, 2024


Impact factor (WoS):

2023: 1.9
Q2 – Economics; Q2 – Agricultural Economics & Policy
5-Year Impact Factor: 2.0

SCImago Journal Rank (SCOPUS):

SCImago Journal & Country Rank


Agricultural Economics

  • ISSN 0139-570X (Print)
  • ISSN 1805-9295 (On-line)

An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zem�d�lsk� ekonomika)

  • The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
  • Editor-in-Chief: prof. Ing. Luk� �echura, Ph.D.
  • Co-editors: Ing. Jarmila Curtiss, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Jind�ich �pi�ka, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Pavla Vrabcov�, Ph.D.
  • Executive Editor: Ing. Zde�ka N�glov�, Ph.D.
  • Technical Editor: Mgr. Barbora Vobrubov�, Ph.D.
  • The journal is published monthly

Aims & Scope

The journal publishes scientific articles: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.


Current issue

Environmental regulations or expected revenue: What plays a more important role in China’s green transition of�agriculture?Original Paper

Yongwang Zhang, Minjuan Zhao

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):425-435 | DOI: 10.17221/142/2024-AGRICECON  

Policy constraints and market incentives have made it an important foundation for developing countries such as China to develop agricultural green transition policies. This study employed the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2022 and the three-dimensional framework of ‘institutions, technology, and marketisation’ to probe whether environmental regulation constraints or expected economic revenue incentives play a critical role in China’s current agriculture development. Whether the green transition of agriculture depends on environmental regulatory policy constraints and expected economic revenue incentives is related...

Land productivity in�the EU in�the context of�financial support through direct subsidiesOriginal Paper

Barbara Kutkowska, Tomasz Szuk, Stanislaw Minta, Hanna Adamska

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):436-445 | DOI: 10.17221/51/2024-AGRICECON  

The main research objective of this study is to present the dynamics of land productivity changes in EU agriculture in the years 2012–2020 and evaluate the influence of direct subsidies received by farmers on land productivity. The source data for 2012–2020 are secondary and come from Eurostat. The research results were prepared for the entire European Union (EU-28), and divided into ‘old’ countries (EU-15) and ‘new’ countries (EU-13). The results were developed using the method of assessing convergence (in terms of differences in land productivity in individual countries) using the coefficient of variation and the...

Technical efficiency and farm size in the context of�sustainable agricultureOriginal Paper

Yang Fan, Wu Guoyong, Noman Riaz, Kamila Radli�ka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):446-456 | DOI: 10.17221/158/2024-AGRICECON  

This article aims to highlight the importance of climate and environmental challenges for agricultural economics and policy. Empirical research based on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method determined the average technical efficiency and scale efficiency of farms in the European Union in total and in economic size classes in the period 2004–2020. The results indicate that agriculture is generally characterised by high technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Analysis by economic size classes of farms, defined by the standard sum of their agricultural output, shows that the relationship between the scale of production and technical efficiency...

The impact of efficiency on the profitability of large farms in the Visegrad FourCase Study

Zuzana Fuksov�, David Mare�, Milan K��pek

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(9):457-464 | DOI: 10.17221/120/2024-AGRICECON  

The issue of productivity and performance in agriculture is significant because it affects a country’s competitiveness, sustainability, and self-sufficiency in agricultural production and is reflected in European policy. This study aims to determine which country had the most efficient large farms compared to other V4 countries and whether efficiency in each country translates into the performance of large farms. The data were obtained from the EU FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) database from 2005 to 2019. These data were then evaluated using the statistical methods DEA: CCR-O (Data Envelopment Analysis: constant returns to scale), DEA:...