Agriculture largely depends on meteorological and climatic conditions. Extreme weather phenomena comprise thunderstorms with hail, which is one of the most limiting factors in agriculture. This is why the decision-making strategy relating to hail risk management is inevitable in terms of agriculture. Based on the data of remote detection of reflectance and numerical modeling in sufficiently high resolution we have created a map of incidence and strength of thunderstorm occurences with hail in NE Slovenia. The assessment of hail frequency prepared based on radar measurements shows different affected areas. Thus some areas with a higher hail probability are particularly outstanding: the southwest slopes of Pohorje and the surroundings of Radgona as well as the Drava and Mura fields. An explicit minimum frequency can be seen in Slovenske Gorice. In monograph a model was developed for assessing the alternatives to risk management in plant production based on the combination of technologically economical simulation model and decision trees, where the information of the simulation model (the financial result for every alternative in every foreseen damage event) are submitted as the input data into the decision tree. Preliminary calculations of the expected values by using the decision tree show that under given insurance conditions and the foreseen probability distribution of damage events due to hail the highest expected value can be seen in the alternative of crop protection. By increasing the awareness of the risk in agriculture and the inclusion of agricultural areas in the insurance system, optimal conditions for decreasing insurance premium rates are created. The placement of the anti-hail net is economically justified on areas with the highest risk level of hail frequency (in intensive orchards), especially for apples, but only in the case of a sufficient production intensity and the sufficiently high selling price of the product. The extent of the inclusion of production agricultural areas in the insurance system in Slovenia must comprise 70% of in order to create conditions for the reduction of premium rates and the distribution of damage extent due to the hail. For this purpose a form of agricultural insurance will be developed which will be based on the mutuality or the coinsurance pool. The basic aim of the inclusion of the country in the insurance risk management in agriculture should be to decrease the risks to which the producers are exposed by means of mutual insurance. The assessment model for alternatives to risk management in agriculture presents a good basis for making quality business decisions for strategic planning. We are aware that further researches will be required, in particular in the sense of a more precise empirical definition of probability distribution of damage events.
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Entrepreneurship in farming is one of the recommended components in our developed model of self-sufficiency with food in Slovenia. Unemployment has become a more and more pressing matter, nowadays. Governments all across the world are implementing policies to increase the employment rates back to the levels before the economic downturn. One of the most important policies implemented by countries governments were employment subsidies, which means that companies got government funding when employing and also that private citizens had the possibility for entrepreneurship stimulus packages. The scope of our study was to determine how the gross domestic product and the government's subsidizing on a country's level affect the number of unemployed on a country level. We have conducted the empirical part of our study on the case of Slovenia and found out that gross domestic product has a bigger effect on the number of unemployed than government’s subsidies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20019942