Review article
Employment in Agriculture in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County: Current Situation and Perspectives
Vinko Barić
Abstract
The workforce represents the basic input of the overall progress in the agricultural production. The general trend of reducing the share of farm workers in the total population reflects the disappearance of the traditional character of agriculture and its transformation into a developed market-oriented activity. The de-agrarianisation and urbanisation processes unstoppably shape the production structure of economy so as to reduce the meaning of agriculture within economy. Nevertheless, the strategic importance of the agricultural production (primarily its nutritional function) has revived the discussions on the need for economic policy carriers to strive harder to grant this activity a more suitable position within the global aspect of development. The analysis of the importance of the agricultural production in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County has indicated to an important fact. Most indicators of the development of agriculture in the county prove that its importance exceeds the Croatian average. The portion of the county farming workforce averages out more than in other parts of the country. The employment- and workforce-related features of the farming activity in the county indicate to a rather pronounced problem of a low level of education and the unfavourable aging structure of farmers. In addition to disunited farms, it becomes obvious that in the county, the basic prerequisites for the development of efficient agricultural production have not been met. It is hence necessary to make additional efforts at the local level to increase the production and employment in agriculture. Even more so if a solid economic basis of the economic basis for the development of ecological agricultural production is taken into account.
Keywords
depopulation; senilisation of agricultural production; dispersed population; functional illiteracy; disunited farms; rural development; green markets
Hrčak ID:
91558
URI
Publication date:
23.10.2012.
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