Applying for conference and submitting contributions: You can apply: - Deadline for receiving applications and submitting of paper titles with informative abstract: 25th September 2009. via electronic application on the internet site DAES (http://www.daes.si) via electronic mail daes@daes.si in written form, posted to: Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences UM, Pivola 11, 2311 Hoče, Zarja Bohak Paper with the title and abstract should be sent via e-mail to: Assoc. Prof., Črtomir Rozman, Ph. D. Chair of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Maribor Pivola 11 2311 Hoče phone: 02 613 08 63 e-mail: crt.rozman@uni-mb.si APPLICATION I will attend the 2010 in Hoče. 5th conference DAES on 4th and 5th March Name and surname: _________________________________________________ Department / Research Organisation: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Address:__________________________________________ _________________________________________________ E-mail: _________________________________________________ Phone:____________________________________________ I want to present my contribution with the title: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Agricultural institute of Slovenia Hacquetova 17, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Tel: 01/ 28 05 262 Faks: 01/ 28 05 255 Organizer in the name of the society: University of Maribor Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences Programme-organization conference board: Full Prof., Jernej Turk, Ph. D. (president), Full Prof., Emil Erjavec, Assoc. Prof., Črtomir Rozman, Ph. D, Branko Ravnik, M. Sc., Neva Pajntar, Assist. Prof., Karmen Pažek, Ph. D, Assist. Prof., Darja Majkovič, Ph. D, Assoc. Prof., Andreja Borec, Assoc. Prof . Andrej Udovč, Ph. D., Assoc. Prof Stane Kavčič, Ph. D, Assist. Prof., Miroslav Rednak, Ph. D, Assist. Prof., Martin Pavlovič, Ph. D Contact person: Zarja Bohak Chair of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Maribor Pivola 11 2311 Hoče phone: 02 613 08 63 e-mail: zarja.bohak@uni-mb.si 5th conference DAES »MODERN CHALLENGES OF MANAGEMENT IN AGRI-FOOD CHAIN« 4th and 5th March 2010 in Hoče Foreword: Argumentation of conference central theme: One of the basic missions of Society of agricultural economists of Slovenia (DAES) is to establish qualitative and varied public debate about economic and developmental issues of Slovene agriculture, food industry and rural areas in general. Our society’s conferences present an important part in fulfilling this mission. As such they are becoming a constant in scientific and professional area in a form of a forum with purpose of exhanging opinions about current economic questions of agri-food chain and development challenges of Slovene rural space. At the same time it represents an opportunity that to present views on current questions and research achievements to wider public. Conferences will be held every three years and in front of us is the fifth conference DAES. Our established central theme of the conference remains the same. In the plenary part we will discuss about the central theme with our guest lecturers and round-table, while in the sections research results will be presented and various thematic discussions will be encouraged. Implementation of modern methods in management is in the time of constant technological discoveries an inseparable part of future development of agricultural production in all countries with developed market economy. Use of modern quantitative scientific methods can contribute to improve qualitative business decisions in agricultural business systems. With this conference we mainly emphasize scientific point of view of agricultural management in the area of operational researches, decision making process, project management, simulations, methods of machine learning, etc. Participants: Conference aims and themes: The central topic of the conference is farm management. Within it, a discussion about organizational, economic and management issues of agricultural business systems will take place, with emphasis on application of quantitative scientific methods for necessity of planning and decision making support in agricultural sector. Beside the central theme, also discussion on other questions that concern broader agricultural politics and current problems will be raised. Programme: DAY 1 08.00 – 09.00 Arrival and registration 09.00 – 09.15 Opening and welcoming speeches 09.15 – 11.15 Plenary lectures I 11.15 – 11.45 Coffee break 11.45 – 13.15 Round table about challenges of business planning in Slovene agri-food chain 13.15 – 14.30 Lunch break 14.30 – 17.00 Plenary lectures II and discussion 18.00 Social event (Meranovo) DAY 2 9.00 – 15.00 Presentation of selected contributions in two parallel sections 9.00 – 15.00 Presentation of selected contributions in section I (in Slovene language) 9.00 – 15.00 Presentation of selected contributions in section II (in English language) 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 – 12.00 Conference closure Society members and interested individuals. Registration fee amount will be announced additionally. Form and publication of paper: Contributions will be published before the conference on the society's web site http://www.daes.si , and on the CD that will be distributed on the conference. Selected and reviewed papers will be published in the book of proceedings that will be published after the conference. Contributions will be reviewed by the reviewers , chosen by the organizer. Instructions for preparing papers (informative abstracts and entire contributions) are presented on the web site http://www.daes.si. Important dates: 25th September 2009 – application of the contribution's title and informative abstract 5th October 2009 – programme board’s notification about the contribution acceptance 14th November 2010 – submission of contributions 15th December 2009 – review of contributions 15th January 2010 – final submission of contributions 25th February 2010 – print of selected contributions »MODERN CHALLENGES OF MANAGEMENT IN AGRI-FOOD CHAIN« Title: