Original scientific paper
EU-Integration Pressure and Search for "True" Active Participants in Market Development of Agriculture (Such as in the Example of the Privatisation of Sladorana d.d. Županja)
Ramona FRANIĆ
Zoran GRGIĆ
Mario NJAVRO
Abstract
Transition of the agricultural sector at the end of the past century,
within the requirements of the international economic integrations,
had resulted in a new structure, but also in a changed
government policy. Family farms were recognized as the official
pillar of agricultural development in Croatia. Companies of the
ex-social sector lost their long-term favorable treatment and now
have been passing through a long and difficult privatization
process. On the basis of the past knowledge on farmers' dissatisfaction
and weak results of privatization, the research is
based on the supposition that former developing alternatives
have been inadequately professionally elaborated and influenced
70 by politics. Therefore the basic objective of the research was to identify the arguments of the discussion on agricultural
development actors in Croatia. In search of the answer,
representatives of the administration, state farms and peasants
have been interviewed. Results confirm that domestic agricultural
problems are the result of economic decisions overinfluenced by
politics, insufficient knowledge, information and motivation in all
groups of society.
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Hrčak ID:
16089
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2004.
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