Profitability of dairy and suckler cows breeding on Czech farms

Autor: J. Humpál, I. Foltýn, Tomáš Doucha
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika). 58:397-408
ISSN: 1805-9295
0139-570X
Popis: The cattle breeding represents one of the most important sectors in the Czech agriculture (permanent cash flows for farms, employment, maintenance of soil quality, etc.). The importance of the sector is seen particularly in the marginal areas (Less Favoured Areas – LFA). That is why, in spite of a continuous shifts of direct supports of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from coupled to decoupled forms, the cattle breeding preserves privileges to be partly supported by the coupled payments, e.g. under the Council Regulation (EC) No. 73/2009, Article 68 (further only Art. 68). Th ere is a question in the Czech Republic, how to distribute eff ectively the coupled and other payments among diff erent categories of cattle breeding, considering their real economy especially after the EU accession. Th e categories (technologies) and their practical importance in the Czech agriculture are as follows: – Intensive breeding of dairy cows (ID) and milk production with feedstuff resources prevailingly on arable land. The technology, even in the Less Favoured Areas (LFA), utterly dominates with about 99% of the dairy cows herds. – Pasture (extensive) breeding of dairy cows (ED) and milk production with feedstuff resources prevailingly on the permanent grassland (further only grassland), mainly located in the LFAs. The technology, which is common in marginal regions in the EU 15 countries, represents a minority with about 1% of the dairy cows herds. – Intensive breeding of suckler cows (IM), characterised by more than 0.5 suckler cows/ha of fodder crops, with feedstuff resources on grassland in the LFAs and/or on arable land. The technology is also marginal, with about 10% of the suckler cow herds. – Extensive breeding of suckler cows (EM), characterised up to 0.5 suckler cows/ha of fodder crops, mainly grassland in the LFAs. This “ranch” technology is mostly applied at present, with about 90% of the suckler cow herds. The allocation of cattle breeding by Czech regions and other basic characteristics (2010) are presented in Table 1. From Table 1, it can be derived that 167.7 thousands of suckler cows represent in this category the average livestock density by about 0.2 suckler cows/ha of grassland in the LFAs. Considering all livestock, the Czech agriculture belongs to the EU countries with the lowest livestock intensity (European Commission
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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