Perceived and "Real" Importance of Subsidies for Agricultural Enterprises in Post-Communist EU Countries
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21582440251324756" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21582440251324756</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440251324756" target="_blank" >10.1177/21582440251324756</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perceived and "Real" Importance of Subsidies for Agricultural Enterprises in Post-Communist EU Countries
Original language description
Thirty years after the fall of the inefficient communist-run economy, the agriculture of the European Union's Eastern states is still heavily dependent on external financial aid, which is currently forming tools for supporting the development of agriculture and rural areas of the Common Agricultural Policy. This contribution aims to assess the significance of government subsidies from the farmer's point of view and their relevance for agricultural enterprise management, using the example of the Czech Republic. To do so, 60 interviews with farmers and analyses of the management of 10 enterprises over the past 10 years were used. According to the findings, it can be concluded that a substantial number of farmers view these subsidies as a purely commercial instrument intended to assist them in running their operations. The emphasis on rural development or food security is minimal. Subsidies are a discussion topic mainly for small-scale farmers who envy the large amounts of subsidies received by their large-scale counterparts; thus, dissatisfaction and perceived injustice resonate significantly among most farmers. A look at economic data completely contradicts these views; however, subsidies play the most important role for small businesses, constituting up to four times their assets. As for the amount of subsidies received, they do increase according to the company's size, but this increase is logarithmic and not linear. A deep discrepancy in the perception and reality of the meaning of subsidies was thus identified as an important element of dissatisfaction in post-socialist agriculture.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SAGE Open
ISSN
2158-2440
e-ISSN
2158-2440
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
001445071500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105000618879