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THE IMPACT OF THE ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION ON FAMILY FARMS' STRATEGIC PLANS
Ramona Franić
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ornella Kumrić
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Lari Hadelan
orcid.org/0000-0002-8499-0771
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In view of the certain accession to the European Union, Croatian farmers are mostly concerned for their future in open European market conditions, especially because of the fact that, small-scale, uncompetitive farms prevail in Croatia, with old age owners and high production costs. These agricultural characteristics, contrary to the economy of scale, affect increased caution and fright of the EU accession. New circumstances and gradual adjustment to the common agricultural policy of the European Union are already affecting the households’ selection of strategies and goals. Hence, the aims of this paper are to determine how Croatian family farms evaluate their business perspectives within the EU accession conditions, to identify positive and negative expectations of that process and recommend measures of agricultural policy that should follow those expectations. Research conducted in Croatia in the period 2004-2007 indicates that some, especially smaller farms intend to give up farming as they find themselves not capable of competing in new, European conditions, when other, larger and more vital farms find challenge and positive expectations of accession as in more professional business, benefit of open market and more organised government attitude towards agriculture. Nevertheless, most of the surveyed farmers intend not to perform any significant changes in the next 5 years or plan to proceed with production for their own needs or as a hobby. Such research results can serve the agricultural policy creators in identifying and understanding their target groups and prepare better programs and adequate policy measures for them.
Ključne riječi
strategy; agriculture; agricultural policy; Croatia; European Union
Hrčak ID:
39812
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.7.2009.
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