EU-Integration Pressure and Search for "True" Active Participants in Market Development of Agriculture (The Example of Sladorana d. d. Županja) Cover Image

EU-integracijski pritisak i potraga za "pravim" akterima tržišnog razvoja poljoprivrede (primjer Sladorane d. d. Županja)
EU-Integration Pressure and Search for "True" Active Participants in Market Development of Agriculture (The Example of Sladorana d. d. Županja)

Author(s): Ramona Franić, Zoran Grgić, Mario Njavro
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: administrative elite; agricultural development; farm; peasant

Summary/Abstract: Transition of the agricultural sector at the end of the past century, within the requirements of the international economic inte-grations, 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' dis-satisfaction and weak results of privatization, the research is based on the supposition that former developing alternatives have been inadequately professionally elaborated and influenced 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.

  • Issue Year: 13/2004
  • Issue No: 69+70
  • Page Range: 49-71
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian