Agricultural Planning and Management

Objectives

Farmer structure.
To Know and to apply decision making models.
To decision maker according the methods introduced previously.

Program

The composition of the agricultural enterprises.

The agricultural production factors: capital, labour and the farmer.

Decision making methods: Gross and net margin, Viability and competitive analysis, partial and global budget, financial management and investment analysis.

The common agricultural policy.

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures and exercises (classrom and homework to assessment for final grade).

Bibliography

Agroges Sociedade de estudos e projectos http://www.apambiente.pt/_zdata/RNCB/ANEXO1.pdf (consulta em 28.02.2014).

Bucket, M. An Introduction to farm organisation and management. Pergamon Press.1981.

Candeias, João A. R., Determinação de indicadores técnico económicos que permitam a tomada de decisão pelos agricultores Faialenses, Relatório de Engenharia Zootécnica, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, 1994.

Costa, Fernando M. V., A Contabilidade e Gestão da Empresa Agrícola, MAPA, Lisboa, 1989.

Kay, R.. Farm Management: planning, control and implementation, Mc-Graw-Hill, end ed., 1988.

Nabais, Carlos, Como interpretar um balanço, Editorial Presença, 3ed., Lisboa, 1993.

Romero, C. e T. Rehman, Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions, Development in Agricultural Economics, 5, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1989.

Sousa, A., Introdução à Gestão, Editorial Verbo, 1999.