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ORIGIN, DEFINITIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF PART-TIME FARMING
Corrado Barberis
Sažetak
The combination of agricultural and non-agricultural activities on peasant
small-holdings in Italy and France has a long tradition. Reliable proofs of this have
been found by the author in literary and historical works (Manzoni, Michelet).
The terminological determination and definition of the combination of agricultural
and non-agricultural activities is fairly complex. The definition of part-
-time farming an proposed by the Italian National Institute for Rural Sociology
(INSOR) and quoted by the author suggests (a) that the essence of part-time
farming does not derive from the farm but the family which keeps it, (b) that it
is possible to construct a continuum of part-time farming with respect to category',
modalities and intensity of the activity of individuals and the family, (c) that the
characteristics of part-time farming derive from the activity of persons rather
than from the nature of their income and (d) that part-time farming assumes
division of employment between two sectors of regular activity or between two
positions within one activity.
The author distinguishes between pure farms where none of the household
members is employed outside the farm, partial farms where most of the activity
of the members takes place on the farm, and ancillary farms where the farming
activity of the members in relation with their other jobs is of a supplementary’
nature. The author gives an interesting estimate of the number of pure, partial
and ancillary farms and households with garden plots in the countries of the West
European Economic Community (excluding Great Britain, Eire and Denmark).
According to the author’s estimate regarding Italy, real peasant/workers, i. e.
those who are employed in two sectors and live on farms comprising less than 10
hectares of land, supply less than 10% of the country’s total agricultural production
for the market. If to these are added other categories of part-time farmers (pensioners
living on farms, and »guests« i. e. members of the household employed
outside agriculture and working on the farm only intermittently), the respective
share in the country’s total agricultural production is less than 20%.
The author believes that the small supplementary part-time farms will develop
in the direction of production for recreational purposes, production of the tra
ditional type, or production exclusively for private consumption. At the same time,
the combination of agricultural and non-agricultural activities offers certain advantages
in spatial development policy as it can help to prevent the total evacuation
of certain rural areas affected by emigration.
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Hrčak ID:
118953
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Datum izdavanja:
10.12.1974.
Posjeta: 1.510 *