Abstract
Studies on primary agricultural production in Slovakia aimed mainly at biological, economic, or market point of view and there is a lack of managerial approach providing a specific recommendation for farmers according to their production lines or planning process. As a reaction, we are providing a practically oriented study based on the selected livestock producer, which is aimed at statistical significances as an establishment for further recommendations for management and marketing of this entity. The paper aims to analyze the views and preferences of customers of the monitored company, which sells its meat and dairy products in its stores and verify the expected success of the planned expansion of the product lines. Regarding this, the online questionnaire study was conducted on a sample of 202 respondents. Realized statistical analysis based on the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test and subsequent Bonferroni post hoc correction signify that meat products, fresh meat, and slaughter specialties are the most favorite products among customers of the monitored company. Fresh milk, on the other hand, is not as attractive as a meal for them. However, selling it from vending machines placed out of the store would increase the sales. Dairy products of own production should be even more successful, as we assume they would be as interesting for customers as the currently expanding portfolio of meat products. The benefit of this study lies in the consideration of the practical use of the obtained results in the business practice of the monitored company. Regarding this, we are providing a set of recommendations, according to the planning of their product lines and connected marketing tools for their successful placement on the market.
Highlights
Agriculture plays an important role in society
Realized statistical analysis based on the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test and subsequent Bonferroni post hoc correction signify that meat products, fresh meat, and slaughter specialties are the most favorite products among customers of the monitored company
Our findings indicate that meat products, fresh meat, and slaughter specialties are the most favorite products among customers of the monitored company
Summary
Agriculture plays an important role in society. In Europe, it is not just an industry with a sole task to produce food. According to Kotler and Armstrong (2004), the farm itself can be considered as a set of factors of production that are subsequently used to produce primary products and services They are the units of labor, economic, and technological organization and their products are the outcomes of the transformation of the production factors: labor, land, and capital. It is a managing transformation process that changes labor, capital, materials, information, and other inputs into products and services (Hill, 2012) with an aim for the right quality, number, time, and production costs (Kumar and Suresh, 2006). Outputs of plant production are at the same time the inputs for animal production (in a form of feed and stems) and outputs of animal, production are used back in plant production (in a form of fertilizers), while both should act environmentally friendly and improve the energy and nutrition cycle (Bettencourt et al, 2015)
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