Professional paper
Concentration and centralization of milk producing farms and co-operation of farms
Renata Husinec
; Poljoprivredni institut Križevci
Josip Kolić
Marija Meštrović
Abstract
The process of concentration of farms (including milk farms) has been examined according to the co-operation in their separate interest (I/II) or in their common interest (II-l) for the 1963—2003 period. Non-market economy and co-operation of farms in their separate interest is characterized (I/II) by costinflation system, nonrecognition of rent for land and profit for capital according to the share, non-payment of earnings according to the saving in capital Owing to former measure (e.g. agrarian reform and land maximum) socially-owned farms grew rapidly in size from 256 to 1053 ha their number, decreased from 5 to 1.6 thousands. Family farms producing for the market slowly grew from only 7.65 to 8.4 ha and number of cows per farm from 3-5 in 1983 to 8 in 2003 and the total number of cows decreased from 751 to 566 thousands. Market economy and co-operation of farms in their common interest, together with savings-profit system, distribution of rent and profit according to the share of partners in land an capital and personal income according to the saving in capital, would enable a more intensive growth of large-scale as well as family farms producing for the market (e. g. from 8.4 to 10 ha or more and 13 cows in 2003) i.e. until the formation of their regional agrosocial structure.
Keywords
dairy farms; process of concentration; farms cooperation - separate interest, common interest; period from 1963 to 2003
Hrčak ID:
95855
URI
Publication date:
6.7.1991.
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