Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2037445
The importance and determinants of market integration of small family farms in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Sebastian Stępień
Katarzyna Smędzik-Ambroży
Marta Guth
Andreea Muntean
Silvia Maican
Carmen Pastiu
Sažetak
One of the issues determining the economic situation of farms is
the scope of their market integration. It can be therefore assumed
that higher market integration leads to an improvement in the
economic performance of households. The article has two aims.
The first is to indicate the relationship between the degree of
market integration of small-scale family farms and their economic
condition. The second objective is to discover the determinants
of the market integration of farms. The explanatory variables
include economic (production value, total farm area, labour input,
specialization of production) and demographic (farmer age, education level) factors. The novelty of our paper lies in in depth
comparative analysis based on primary data from questionnaire
surveys taken in 2018 and 2019 in five countries of Central and
Eastern Europe: Serbia, Moldova, Lithuania Romania, and Poland.
The results indicate is the existence of a statistically significant
positive correlation between the degree of market integration
and economic performance. Factors that favorably influence the
level of market connection include the scale of production, specialization and, to some extent, level of farmowner’s education.
The remaining variables are inconclusive or not statistically
significant.
Ključne riječi
Agriculture; family farms; market integration; determinants; Central and Eastern European countries
Hrčak ID:
302870
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
Posjeta: 392 *