The article deals with the Czech agriculture and food industry and is divided into two parts. The first deals with the competitiveness of the Czech agriculture and the second part focuses on the economic performance of the Czech food industry. The aim of this article is to evaluate the importance of selected plant and animal commodities by analysing the selected indicators - self-sufficiency and RCA index including also the development of production, consumption, agricultural producer prices and agricultural foreign trade between the years 2007-2014. Next aim of the paper is to evaluate the structure of the Czech food industry and the development of key economic indicators over the time and also to determine the position and significance of each branch in the Czech food industry. According to the results, we can see the decreasing position of livestock production and focusing on economic effective commodities. Negative phenomenon of Czech agricultural trade is the export orientation to products with lower added value. The dominant branches in food sectors are CZ- NACE 10.1 Processing and preserving of meat and production of meat products, 10.7 Manufacture of bakery and farinaceous products and 10.8 Manufacture of other food products. We can find the most number of enterprises there from the whole food industry, these branches are also the biggest employers and they significantly contribute to sales in the food branch. However, there appears the decrease in the number of employees; labour productivity is also very low. Given that this is the fundamental fields of Czech food industry, it is necessary to improve their performance and effectively utilize investments in order to improve the assessment of agrarian production.
Náglová, Z., Menzlová, J., Bošková, I., Špička, J., Mezera, J.
Economics of Agriculture, Volume XV, 2015, Issue 4, p. 45–63, ISSN 1338-6336
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