This course initiates students to the elementary concepts and methodologies of Operations Research and applications to the agriculture and animal husbandry as well as to the agro-industry. The objective is to enhance the ability of decision making under uncertainty and of the risk management analysis.
With the completion of the course students are expected to know the basic techniques and mathematical models so that they support diligent and rational decisions and also to manage efficiently a large spectrum of managerial problems. They are also expected to investigate and quantitatively assess and estimate micro-economic models for decision making and understand the relationship of positive economic analysis with the normative rules for the firm to follow.
It is the only Greek University Department with the objective of training agroeconomists able to meet the demands of this new period in Greek agriculture which was inaugurated with the entry of Greece into the E.U.
