Sociology and Space, No. 105-106, 1989.
Original scientific paper
Groups of Farms According to the Type of Production and Sale
Ana Barbič
Abstract
The author studies the types of
production and sale on 543 farms in
four Ljubljana communes. Using
the »leader method« she identified
eight production and nine market
types of farms. 41% of the farms
developed specialized production but
there are only 23% that are
completely turned to market
production. Although an
unspecialized sale of farm produce
does not mean that farms are not
turned to the market, their
strongest feature still remains their
selfsupplying role. Of all the
agricultural-economic,
socio-geographic and
socio-psychological characteristics
of farms, households and their
members, the production and market
groups of farms are best
distinguished by income from the
farm. This income, in turn, depends
on the amount of cultivable land,
the status of a protected farm,
altitude, the owner’s sex and his/her
willingness to cultivate part of the
uncultivated land. Besides by
income, the groups are also
discriminated by the distance of the
farm from the nearest cooperative
and the nearest town, by the type
of farm (purely agricultural,
part-time 1, part-time 2, old
peoples’), by the education of the
farmer and his degree of information
about achievements in agricultural
sciences and by the willingness of
the three members who make up
the core of the farm (husband,
wife and the heir/heiress) to leave
their jobs outside the farm, under
satisfactory conditions.
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Hrčak ID:
121932
URI
Publication date:
20.7.1989.
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