The paper analysis structural changes and the diversification of incomes with an emphasis on farms in Slovenia. The number of farms is decreasing and their average size increases. Particularly noticeable is the reduction of small and medium-sized farms, which also receive a relatively lower share of subsidies based on direct payments. They are based on the size of the key agricultural productive factors in use such as farmland and the number of large livestock. For some farms, important can be also subsidies for large-scale investments. For a large part of the Slovenian farms, subsidies are also important for farms situated in less favoured areas, while specific farming supports represent agri-environmental payments. Despite extensive subsidies, the volume of agricultural production or gross agricultural output and the degree of self-sufficiency have not increased and are different for individual products and production groups. The diversification of income on farms has been a historical fact, but by changing forms that were or are becoming dominant. Farmers' income has increasingly become dependent on agricultural policy measures and related subsidies.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 1541982916Literature on the role of liquidity constraints to farm growth dynamics is almost non-existent. The paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial constraints and farm growth for Slovenian farms between 2007 and 2015 using Farm Accountancy Data Network datasets. The finding suggests the possible substitution of labour with capital and changing type of farming from more labour intensive to more land extensive cultivation practices.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38125315The effectiveness of subsidies in maintaining the labour force in the agricultural sector is unclear. We investigate the employment effects of the entire portfolio of CAP measures (including Pillar I and Pillar II subsides) in Slovenia between 2007 and 2015 using Farm Accountancy Data Network datasets. We find that total subsidy, Pillar I and Pillar II subsidies have positive impacts on total agricultural employment. The effects of specific Pillar II supports are heterogenous on total agricultural labour.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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