Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(7), 2951-2964 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361072951

The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture

Ivo Zdráhal, Věra Bečvářová
Department of Regional and Business Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The paper deals with one of the current problems of the agrarian economics and policy, and this approaches to the definition, measurement and interpretation of farm size, as one of the key indicators of evaluation the processes shaping the entrepreneurial structure in the current agribusiness. The results of research into causation factors and processes shaping the business structure of modern agriculture are presented there. It evaluates approaches to express the magnitude of company and its explanatory power in the context of the selected evaluation criteria of the processes and phenomena. It deals with the potential risks of a narrow criterion-oriented agricultural policy in terms of strategy and fulfillment of role allocation and distribution in order to support of enterprises in today's business environment. The basic trends in the farm size structure in the member countries of the European Union are evaluated including their impact of the significance of individual size segments and their share of the output sector. In this context it evaluates and compares the results of the analysis of developments in business structures in the old and new EU Member States.

Keywords: agricultural holding, agricultural policy, concentration process, farm size indicators, farm size structure
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The paper was developed within the Research Project of MENDELU in Brno, MSM 6215648904, as a part of the solution to thematic direction No. 4 "The development tendency of agribusiness, forming of segmented markets within commodity chains and food networks in the process of integration, globalization and changes of agrarian policy".

Received: August 30, 2013; Published: December 24, 2013  Show citation

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Zdráhal, I., & Bečvářová, V. (2013). The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(7), 2951-2964. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361072951
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