Original scientific paper

Market Relations in Agriculture

Petar Marković

Abstract

The elements of an agrarian policy
must carry certain specific
characteristics if it is to respect
all the special features of
agricultural production. This is
especially true of prices with their
basic elements (refunds, bonuses
and so on), credits, investments,
reserves and taxes.
Land policy has its special place and
importance in the market conception
of an agrarian policy.
In principle, the prices of
industrial input (fertilizers, crop
and cattle protection, machinery
etc.), into primary agricultural
products and of processed
agricultural products are formed
freely on the home market, taking
into consideration the prices in the
countries we export to or import
from. This free market price
formation establishes economic
relations based on supply and
demand, i. e. economic relations
among agricultural products and
between agriculture and other
activities.
Agriculture needs various different
forms of prices with a whole
Instrumentarium of market
mechanisms, primarily through a
policy of bonuses, refunds,
stimulation, credit-monetary
investment and tax policy.
The development of a suitable
agrarian policy, along with an
efficient land policy and a water
exploitation policy, would create
conditons to channelize complex
structural changes and farm
differentiation towards the
strengthening of market production,
specialization and organizational
and economic links with industrial
processing and communications.
It would also speed up association
and the system of cooperatives to
goster agricultural development,
and the totality of such
socio-economic relations would in
turn speed up the development of
production, productivity and
producer income.

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Hrčak ID:

121935

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121935

Publication date:

20.7.1989.

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