Enterprise Activity Modeling in Walnut Sector in Ukraine

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The presentation of results is good but the introduction and discussion section is very poor. Therefore, I suggest major revision.

General comments

The first sentence of the abstract is too long, please avoid such long sentences.

Line 36-40: good information but has no value without a proper reference. Please add proper references.

Again Line 43-57 is without reference. Introduction without reference is not an introduction, it is like a report or summary. Please must add references for each information.

Line 65-67: Please revise for the ease of readers

Finally, i suggest to re-write the whole introduction with proper reference, please add reference for each information.

What is the difference between introduction and review of literature in your paper?. As both sections showed the information in the light of references.

Please write the subtitle for statistical analysis and explain in detail.

Table 1. Please change ha-1 to ha^-1

Presentation of result is good.

Discussion is very very short. Please write more with recent reference.

Please separate conclusion from discussion.

Please write conclusion clearly that journal readers know your findings.

Author Response

Thanks for the detailed review! we have tried to answer all questions as much as possible!

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The main goal of this study is to give analysis of the oil and fat sub-complex for walnut processing throught the different model comparison. Main goal is clear but I have some comments to the article. 

1) There is a sentence in the abstract: "The most cost-effective is the combination of walnut production and its processing, which will provide profitability of up to 4640.32% in the 20th year of the project implementation." Is that 4640.32% real, how it is possible?

2) Literature review - Literature review is too short. There is a lot of sources in brackets like [5,6,7,8,9,10], [18,19,20,21,22], [25,26,27,28,29,30,31] but it looks like a general statement in order to use as many resources as possible. I recommend reworking so that specific ideas on the issue are given and not just a list of sources in parentheses.

3) Materials and methods - There is the sentence: "Based on analysis of expenses for the preparation, planting and maintenance of the garden, we have modelled the profitability of the farm according to different models concerning the business model." Which models were used? Is it kind of economic modelling or statistical modelling? I also lack research or modeling hypotheses. 

4) Results - this chapter is very complex but some percentage in tables 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 in column Profitability % look incredible. 

5) Discussions and Conclussions - There is sentence: "Active development of the business is possible through the creation of its own brand, entering the consumer market and use of the B2C model." - I lack stronger arguments to substantiate this claim. I also lack a comparison of the study's findings with some similar research that would confirm or refute these conclusions.

Author Response

Thanks for the detailed review! we have tried to answer all questions as much as possible!

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The revised article is significantly improved and my recommendation is to accept.