Agricultural Economics, 2007 (vol. 53), issue 4
Land market and agricultural land use after the EU enlargement
Š. Buday
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):145 | DOI: 10.17221/869-AGRICECON 
Agricultural land market in Slovakia
S. Buday
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):146-153 | DOI: 10.17221/863-AGRICECON
The agricultural land market in Slovakia has noted an increased dynamics recently. Such situation was a result of entering big foreign investors, particularly car factories, which had bought agricultural land for construction purposes. It resulted in the raised prices of plots. Agricultural land prices sold for the further agricultural use are markedly lower from the national point of view than in the EU-15. Such prices are also the third lowest ones within the new member countries of the EU.
Land market development after the accession to EU
J. Němec, J. Kučera
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):154-160 | DOI: 10.17221/866-AGRICECON
Land market has started to develop extremely in the Czech Republic since 2002. The annual sale and purchase of estates represented 0.2% of the total land resources between 1993-2001. The sale and the purchase have represented 2.9% of total land resources after 2002 and especially after the EU accession of the Czech Republic. These values of sale are the highest from the EU countries. On the other side, land prices decreased slightly in comparison with the prices before the EU accession. Prices of agricultural land are significantly lower than in the EU 15.
Characteristics of land market in Hungary at the time of the EU accession
E. Hamza, K. Miskó
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):161-168 | DOI: 10.17221/864-AGRICECON
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute has launched a research project with the aim to analyse the Hungarian land market and the changes occurred since the EU accession as well as to present the tendencies of the development. The statistical data on the land market is rather deficient and cannot be considered representative, therefore, we also included some empirical experiments summarising experts’ opinion referring to all the counties of Hungary. In our paper, we provide our statements and conclusions. The survey shows that the landed property market in Hungary is in a state of anticipation. Demand is primarily for outstanding...
Land market and e-services in Bulgaria
D. Stoyneva
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):167-172 | DOI: 10.17221/868-AGRICECON
Bulgaria faced and still is facing many challenges in the accession process to the EU. Free movement of capital, and especially the development of the land market, is one of them. Although the progress is made, the market is still developing and the land prices are still below the average prices in EU. There are different reasons for this: very fragmented land after the restitution process, chaotic transactions, lack of bank credits for agricultural purposes, unrealistic expectations after the accession to the EU, etc. The land lease continues to be the preferred way for land cultivation instead of buying of land. All those problems are studied in...
Enforcement of the 2003 CAP reform in 5 countries of the West European Union: Consequences on land rent and land market
J.P. Boinon, J.C. Kroll, D. Lepicier, A. Leseigneur, J.B. Viallon
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):173-183 | DOI: 10.17221/860-AGRICECON
This paper analyses the enforcement of the 2003 CAP reform in 5 countries of the West European Union: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. The reform gives multiple possibilities of adaptation at a national or regional level. Two standard strategies are foreseen: that of the States which mobilized to the maximum the innovations that the reform allowed, and that of the States which have chosen the option of a minimal application, to limit the effects of reorientation of the productions (maximum sectors remain coupled) or of the redistribution of the payments (historical references). The great diversity of the conditions of agricultural...
Official agricultural land price in the Slovak Republic
K. Bradáčová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):184-188 | DOI: 10.17221/865-AGRICECON
As long as the land market in Slovakia is not completely developed and land market prices introduced, the officially assigned land prices are practically in use. At the present time, land prices should express the supply prices, which cover the income effect of the land site under the socially necessary costs. In this situation, for the temporary period, centrally assigned fixed land prices could represent the effective supply and demand prices in case they correspond to the mentioned conditions. At present, the official prices are used for fiscal purposes and the land property rights.
The agricultural land problems in Bulgaria and implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy
I. Yanakieva
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):189-193 | DOI: 10.17221/870-AGRICECON
The paper deals with agricultural land problems in Bulgaria that will impede the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the assimilation of financial resources from the EU Structural Funds. Some of the major problems are: the unfinished process of identification of land ownership and division of ownership on the restituted land between heirs, the lack of land property documents for others owners, the lack of experience in subsidizing agriculture, the lack of an adequate administrative capacity for implementation of the CAP and the post-implementation control, delay in creation of the Integrated System for Administrative Control, etc.
Types of private holdings and their role in subsistence of rural population in Hungary
E. Hamza, E. Tóth
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(4):194-199 | DOI: 10.17221/867-AGRICECON
The research analyses the fundamental resources, farm structures, and composition by aim of farming, labour force and family income sources of the agricultural private holdings from the aspects of subsistence and income generation as well as of rural development. By processing the various databases, the research provides a clear picture on the situation of private holdings and groups of farms (self-supplying, marketing the surplus, commercial holdings). On the basis of the analyses, it is possible to estimate the number of competitive farms, that is, of professional farms, and the number of the producers who are not engaged in commercial production....