Influence of Technology on Competitive Ability of Vine-growing Farms

P. BORISOV

Abstract: During the last years the agricultural policy of EU is oriented to reduce the vineyards in countries which are members of the union. The main goal is to suppress the surplus of the grape in European market. The improvement of competitiveness of the farms is planned to be achieved in increasing the supply of high quality sorts which have higher market prices. In the process of conversation of vineyards the key issue which has to be done is the right choice of technology and its rational adoption. This is the way for improving the competitiveness of vine-growing farms. The purpose of this research is to be molded the influence of technology on the rate of competitiveness of farms, willing to converse the sort structure of their vineyards. For this purpose there have been solved the following tasks: Modeling of various models of farms which use different kind of technology of grape production; Appraisement of investment rent-ability and competitiveness of these models. In modeling process there have been used the plan-count constructional method and index method. In result there have been estimated 210 models of vine-growing farms which were differentiated using the following criteria: size of vineyards in farm, sort of grape, kind of formation of vineyards and scheme of the vines and kind of possession of machinery used in production. The main tasks which have been solved in process of modeling are: definition of even break size of the vineyards; definition of age structure and sort structure of vineyards in every model; definition of the technology of grape production; what kind of possession of machinery will be used in production (hired or own); appraisement of investment rent-ability and competitiveness of the models. The results of conducted modeling show that the competitiveness and rent ability of investments are highly influenced by the technology of production.

Keywords: appraisement of investment; break even point; index of competitiveness of enterprise; models of vine-growing farms; technology of production

Date published: 2024-09-04