Small farms in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/Stepien.Maican-8.2020" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/Stepien.Maican-8.2020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Small farms in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The aim of this chapter is to interpret the developmental trajectory of the farm size structure in the Czech Republic. The agrarian sector in the Czech Republic has under-gone several significant changes in the last 30 years. The transition after 1989 has also brought a series of quantitative and qualitative modifications in the farm size structure. The number of farms increased. A large number of farms have operated with a very small acreage of land; and at the same time, a rather small number of farms operated a vast area of agricultural land, generating a substantial output in the industry and creat-ing new employment opportunities. Due to the interconnection of ownership structures, the actual concentration of farms in the Czech Republic is probably even higher than shown in the basic overview. On the other hand, there is still a large variety of farms of miscellaneous sizes. The results show disparities in the economic efficiency of farms of different sizes (analysed in the period from 2015 to 2018). The overall conclusion is that the results indicate a positive state and positive tendencies in the development of the farm size structure in the Czech Republic&apos;s agriculture. The current size structure creates the prerequisite to compete within the business environment of the current value chains. The farm structure is quite similar to the one in United States. The difference in comparison to farm size structures in other EU states does not seem to be a handicap, but a compet-itive advantage. The lower economic efficiency of small farms suggests that a change in their business strategy is needed towards differentiated production (special, regional etc.), and in combination with non-agricultural profit-making activities, at an appropriate level of intensity of the use of natural resources. In this sense, even small family farms will be a permanent part of the agrarian structure of the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Small farms in the paradigm of sustainable development: Case studies of selected Central and Eastern European countries

ISBN

978-83-8180-250-5

Number of pages of the result

23

Pages from-to

100-122

Number of pages of the book

203

Publisher name

Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek

Place of publication

Torun

UT code for WoS chapter

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