Agronomy journal, Vol. 73 No. 4-5, 2011.
Original scientific paper
THE IMPACT OF STATE SUBSIDIES ON THE VALUE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN CROATIA
Ramona Franić
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Matej Marinović
; Bukovac Gornji 148 C, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Magdalena Zrakić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0577-1109
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The aim is to determine the impact of disbursed budget support (production subsidies) on production value and self-sufficiency of economically important products in agricultural sector. We conducted a time series and structural analysis of these parameters during the period from 1998 to 2008 and connection was established between the level of paid production subsidies and the basic production and economic results of agricultural production. The research is based on the assumption that the increase of paid subsidies in the agricultural sector had no particularly strong impact on production increase, such as increase of its value and self-sufficiency. State subsidies in Croatia have gone through certain legal reforms during the analyzed period, which is most affected by the adjustment of Croatian Legislation with European Union legislation. Just in these frequent changes of criteria in the payment of subsidies we may find some of the reasons why their impact on the performance was weak. The research results confirm that the trends in paid subsidies did not match with trends that show the value of production and self-sufficiency. Large fluctuations were recorded in the structure of paid support during the analyzed period.
Keywords
agriculture; production subsidies; Croatia; production value; self-sufficiency
Hrčak ID:
79941
URI
Publication date:
12.4.2012.
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