Livestock production often has a crucial role in the overall farm system, especially under unpredictable conditions. In the Czech Republic, cattle farming is stagnating and farmers have to search for additional and alternative sources of income. Diversification strategies often mean that farmers have to find new uses for existing resources (farm buildings, equipment, labor), stepping into the meat processing sector and farm-to-table system or into agritourism. In this paper, we simulate the scenarios representing the potential benefit of diversification into agritourism. The paper adopts the system dynamics approach to model three different sized farms, calibrated with official data. In addition, a management flight simulator is used in an applied case study. In both cases, we evaluate the impact of the agritourism on the economic performance of the farm. In the case study, we also test the scenarios of the impact of coronavirus lockdown. From the long-term perspective, the diversification into agritourism brings the benefit even under the conditions of one season lockdown and improves the economic output of the beef cattle farm more than the farm-to-table strategy.

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多元化发展为农业旅游的经济影响

畜牧生产通常在整个农场系统中起着至关重要的作用，尤其是在不可预测的条件下。在捷克共和国，养牛业停滞不前，农民不得不寻找额外的替代收入来源。多元化战略通常意味着农民必须寻找现有资源（农场建筑，设备，劳动力）的新用途，进入肉类加工部门和从农场到餐桌的系统或农业旅游业。在本文中，我们模拟了代表多样化发展为农业旅游的潜在利益的方案。本文采用系统动力学方法对三个不同规模的农场进行建模，并用官方数据进行了校准。此外，在应用案例研究中使用了管理飞行模拟器。在这两种情况下 我们评估了农业旅游对农场经济绩效的影响。在案例研究中，我们还测试了冠状病毒锁定影响的方案。从长远来看，即使在一个季节的锁定条件下，向农业旅游的多样化也带来了好处，并且比从农场到餐桌的策略更能提高肉牛农场的经济产出。