Factors Influencing the Sale of Local Products through Short Supply Chains: A Case of Family Dairy Farms in Slovakia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Distribution Systems
2.2. Agri-Food Supply Chain
2.3. Short Food Supply Chain As an Instrument of Sustainable Agriculture
2.4. Forms of Sale of Local Agri-Food Products
- Face-to-face,
- Proximate,
- Extended,
- Traditional sales method, which is based on farms in rural areas and family farms, using traditional and craft production methods,
- Non-traditional way of selling, which consists of more complicated networking of producers, where these businesses are often off-farm (especially supply systems) located in urban or suburban areas,
- Building a relationship between the consumer and the producer,
- Possibility of determining the final price of products,
- Producer receives the full share of the profit,
- Raising awareness directly about primary producers [45].
3. Materials and Methods
- The Friedman test
- The Nemenyi test
4. Results
Sales Opportunities of Family Farms
- Time consuming
- Labour shortages
- High costs of point of sale, transport, wages
- Administrative burden and excessive control
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Short Food Supply Chain | Subcategory |
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Sales in proximity | Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) |
On Farm Sales
| |
Off Farm Sales
| |
Farm Direct Deliveries:
| |
Extended sale |
Farm Direct Deliveries:
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Object of Research | Family Businesses Operating in the Agro-Sector, Defined as Family Farms that Produce and Process Local Value-Added Products |
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Research strategy | Qualitative research |
Data acquisition method | Detailed questionnaire survey |
Data sources | Farm owners |
Criteria for selection of respondents | <50 employees More than 1 family member works on the farm Cattle breeder Processor of raw material for value-added products with a view to sale to the final consumer Active business |
The Friedman Test: | |
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Q (Observed value) | 129.222 |
Q (Critical value) | 18.307 |
DF | 10 |
p-value (one-tailed) | <0.0001 |
alpha | 0.05 |
The Friedman Test: | |
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Q (Observed value) | 26.724 |
Q (Critical value) | 12.592 |
DF | 6 |
p-value (one-tailed) | <0.0001 |
alpha | 0.05 |
The Friedman Test: | |
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Q (Observed value) | 92.351 |
Q (Critical value) | 22.362 |
DF | 13 |
p-value (one-tailed) | <0.0001 |
alpha | 0.05 |
Sample | Mean of Ranks | Groups | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Participation in farmers’ markets | 4.083 | A | ||
Herd production performance | 5.800 | A | B | |
Performance of milk processing technology | 5.900 | A | B | |
Price of raw milk offered by other processing companies | 5.917 | A | B | |
Workforce efficiency | 6.000 | A | B | |
Price of dairy products | 6.767 | A | B | C |
Promotion of dairy products in the region | 7.633 | A | B | C |
Regular sales of products | 7.667 | A | B | C |
Location of the point of sale | 7.717 | A | B | C |
Customer recommendations | 8.767 | B | C | |
Quality of dairy products | 9.133 | B | C | |
Taste of dairy products | 9.700 | C | ||
Customer loyalty | 9.900 | C | ||
Freshness of dairy products | 10.017 | C |
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Horská, E.; Petriľák, M.; Šedík, P.; Nagyová, Ľ. Factors Influencing the Sale of Local Products through Short Supply Chains: A Case of Family Dairy Farms in Slovakia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8499. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208499
Horská E, Petriľák M, Šedík P, Nagyová Ľ. Factors Influencing the Sale of Local Products through Short Supply Chains: A Case of Family Dairy Farms in Slovakia. Sustainability. 2020; 12(20):8499. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208499
Chicago/Turabian StyleHorská, Elena, Marek Petriľák, Peter Šedík, and Ľudmila Nagyová. 2020. "Factors Influencing the Sale of Local Products through Short Supply Chains: A Case of Family Dairy Farms in Slovakia" Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8499. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208499