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Katalin Takács-György
Károly Róbert College, Gyöngyös, Hungary

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Journal article
Published: 25 November 2014 in Sustainability
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Many technologies have appeared in agriculture to reduce the harmful effects of chemical use. One of these technologies is precision farming technology. Precision farming technology should not be considered as only the latest plant production technology or only a new agro-management tool. It is achieved only when the results of electronics and IT equipment are realized in the variable rate treatments zone-by-zone. The advantages and disadvantages of this technology highly depend on the heterogeneity of soil, the knowledge and attitude of the manager and the staff. This is the reason why opinions about the technology effects are so wide. This paper shows the results of the investigation based on interviews about the adoption and knowledge of precision farming technology among Hungarian crop producers. This technology is mostly used by farms over 300 hectares with young farmers. The most characteristic elements were precision fertilization and tractor guidance. The survey examined three groups of farmers with respect to whether they apply precision farming elements or not. We refer to them as “users”, “planners” and “non-users”. According to the survey, the opinions of the “user” and the “non-user” groups of farmers are not significantly different regarding the impacts of precision farming technology (the main advantages were the change in yield quantity, chemical usage and income). Furthermore, the opinions of the farmers regarding the changes in variable costs resulting from the adoption of precision farming technology were also examined (measured in percent). Box-plot analysis was used for this examination. According to the opinion of the “user” group of farmers, the highest cost savings occurred in fertilizer and herbicide costs.

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Enikő Lencsés; István Takács; Katalin Takács-György. Farmers’ Perception of Precision Farming Technology among Hungarian Farmers. Sustainability 2014, 6, 8452 -8465.

AMA Style

Enikő Lencsés, István Takács, Katalin Takács-György. Farmers’ Perception of Precision Farming Technology among Hungarian Farmers. Sustainability. 2014; 6 (12):8452-8465.

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Enikő Lencsés; István Takács; Katalin Takács-György. 2014. "Farmers’ Perception of Precision Farming Technology among Hungarian Farmers." Sustainability 6, no. 12: 8452-8465.

Conference paper
Published: 06 November 2014 in Proceedings of The 4th World Sustainability Forum
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In the last few decades, especially since the 1990s, the CSR and business ethics have become important issues. The relevance of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be detected in the business and management trainings. Economic and corporate ethics, environment management, and sustainable management gained momentum in education but it is a real concern whether it is appreciated in SMEs. The real practice depends on the behaviour of the organisation and the socially responsible attitude of the leader as the leader is the determining factor in the operation of any organization.There have been several researches carried out regarding corporate social responsibility in recent years, the results were published in specialist journals and periodicals. There are researches dealing with the correlation between individual values and business life (Agle és Calwell, 1999), however, the number of those researches that deal with specifically the relation between the practice of CSR and the individual values of corporate leaders (Koivula, 2008) are small at international level. There are not many researches dealing with the management attitude of the CEO. The study deals with a segment of CSR that is the study of the correlation the CSR-practice and the personal values and attitudes of the corporate leaders.In the present research was identified many values (universalism, benevolence, self-direction) of the CEOs which are influence the CSR-practice. The examined characteristics may carry important information from the point of view of social responsibility. The findings of the research show the exact values and their priorities to a CSR-centred leader. It also introduces the dominant values of the leaders with modern CSR approach.

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Andrea Benedek; Katalin Takács-György; István Takács. The Study of the Individual Values of CEOs in the Light of CSR. Proceedings of The 4th World Sustainability Forum 2014, 1 .

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Andrea Benedek, Katalin Takács-György, István Takács. The Study of the Individual Values of CEOs in the Light of CSR. Proceedings of The 4th World Sustainability Forum. 2014; ():1.

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Andrea Benedek; Katalin Takács-György; István Takács. 2014. "The Study of the Individual Values of CEOs in the Light of CSR." Proceedings of The 4th World Sustainability Forum , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 November 2013 in Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum
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Modern plant production systems are faced to numerous challenges, for example, they have to satisfy the growing food necessity with moderate environmental damage and to produce quality product with profit. The support of the food needs cannot be solved by giving up the chemicals. Many new or rediscovered technologies have appeared against the harmful effects of the chemicalization of the agricultural production without yield loss or with yield similarity (for example ecological, mid-tech farming and precision farming technologies). Precision farming technology should not be considered as only a modern plant production technology or only a new agro-management tool. In our opinion the precision farming technology is achieved only when the results of electronic and IT equipment are realized and can be differentiated in the variable rate treatments zone-by-zone. The biggest problem with the precision farming technology according to our opinion is that the possible advantages and disadvantages of the technology highly depend on the professional knowledge and attitude of the manager and the staff. Between the autumn 2010 and spring 2011 the own data collection was made for examining the knowledge about the precision farming technology among Hungarian farmers producing field crops. Some interviewed farmers have used precision farming technology for years, some have planned to adopt this technology and some have heard about the technology but does not want to use it. Adaptation of precision farming technology may bring both advantages and disadvantages. According to the scientific literature sources the most important advantage of precision farming technology is the decreasing of the negative environmental impacts. In the survey, non-precision farmers placed this advantage in the 1st place, according to the precision farming planners it was in the 2nd place, while according to the precision farmers this impact was only on the 8th place. Furthermore we examined the opinion of the farmers about the changes in percentages of operational cost, herbicide cost, fertilizer cost and human resource cost resulted by the adaptation of precision farming technology compared to the conventional technology. I used the box-plot analysis for this examination. In summary the biggest cost saving were in the fertilizer cost and herbicide cost according to the opinion of precision farmers.

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Enikő Lencsés; Katalin Takács-György. Precision Farming Technology like the Tool of the Sustainable Agriculture in the Hungarian Practice. Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum 2013, 1 .

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Enikő Lencsés, Katalin Takács-György. Precision Farming Technology like the Tool of the Sustainable Agriculture in the Hungarian Practice. Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum. 2013; ():1.

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Enikő Lencsés; Katalin Takács-György. 2013. "Precision Farming Technology like the Tool of the Sustainable Agriculture in the Hungarian Practice." Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 02 November 2011 in Proceedings of The 1st World Sustainability Forum
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In sustainable agriculture it is getting more important the need of reducing environmental burden duo to agrochemical use. To carry out environmental protection, the responsible use of natural resources and keep rural development for the future generation is our taskThe term "sustainable development" includes the current and long-run sustainable production and the controversies of environmental protection that assurance the right quality of life, and hard-preventable, but rather tolerated conflicts. Sustainability must include the farming that allow for easy reproduction the assets needed for production not only business management level, but also on a national level management irrespectively of the source of capital necessary for farming. It is also important to maintenance of rural areas. Precision farming is one of the farming strategies in crop production which can increase farmer\'s efficiency and can reduce the chemical use – especially in plant protection – and also the burden of environment. Here in this research we have examined the economic relations between potential savings in chemicals on EU level and in Hungary by analyzing scenarios for implementing the site-specific technology in weed management. It has been found that after switching to precision farming, the active ingredient savings in herbicide use can be 30 thousand tons (calculating with the current dose-level) in EU-27. If approximately 30% of the crop producing and mixed farms over 16 ESU adopt this new technology, this will diminish environmental loads by up to 10-35%. In Hungary the expected area on which precision plant protection can be used is about 400 000 ha if 25 % of the farms operating over 16 ESU apply the technology. That means 229-587 to pesticide savings per year depending on the savings in dose of pesticide per hectare (that were: 25-30-50%), assuming the nowadays pesticide usage. The majority of farms characterized by greater output and size can be based on their own equipment but it might as well be presumed that smaller farms can turn to precision farming not based on their own investment, buying the technical service, establishing machinery rings. At a certain farm size and farming intensity precision crop production is a real, environmentally friendly farming strategy, with the help of which the farm can reach earnings that cover at least the economic conditions of simple reproduction.

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Takács-György Katálin; Takacs István. Use of Agrochemicals – Environmental, Social and Economical Impacts of Alternative Farming Strategies: Precision Weed Management. Proceedings of The 1st World Sustainability Forum 2011, 1 .

AMA Style

Takács-György Katálin, Takacs István. Use of Agrochemicals – Environmental, Social and Economical Impacts of Alternative Farming Strategies: Precision Weed Management. Proceedings of The 1st World Sustainability Forum. 2011; ():1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Takács-György Katálin; Takacs István. 2011. "Use of Agrochemicals – Environmental, Social and Economical Impacts of Alternative Farming Strategies: Precision Weed Management." Proceedings of The 1st World Sustainability Forum , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 27 July 2011 in Sustainability
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The aim of this research is to investigate plant production sustainability, the economical requirements, risks, and identify threshold levels to switching on, or off precision weed management techniques in Hungarian growing and sales conditions; taking into consideration that the implementation of precision technology can be justified also by its role in the reduction of environmental load, which would create a harmony between individual usefulness and social utility. A simulation model has been developed to investigate the return of extra investments, along with the risk of this return in relation to the soil type, weed coverage, and the sales price.

ACS Style

Katalin Takács-György; István Takács. Risk Assessment and Examination of Economic Aspects of Precision Weed Management. Sustainability 2011, 3, 1114 -1135.

AMA Style

Katalin Takács-György, István Takács. Risk Assessment and Examination of Economic Aspects of Precision Weed Management. Sustainability. 2011; 3 (8):1114-1135.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Katalin Takács-György; István Takács. 2011. "Risk Assessment and Examination of Economic Aspects of Precision Weed Management." Sustainability 3, no. 8: 1114-1135.