PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY OF INDIVIDUAL FARMS IN POLAND: A CASE FOR LAND CONSOLIDATION

The article examines productivity and efficiency of Polish individual farms, contributing to the policy debate on excessive fragmentation and the need for land consolidation. Data of a rural household survey conducted in the spring of 2000 show that Polish individual farms in the size range of up to 100 hectares have positive marginal productivity of land and increasing returns to scale. Among the individual farms surveyed, larger farms report higher household incomes from farm and non-farm sources combined. Rural families cultivating larger land holdings are observed to be substantially better off than families with relatively small allotments.Productivity Analysis,

Agricultural Recovery and Individual Land Tenure: Lessons from Central Asia

Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, Land Economics/Use,

Agricultural Recovery in CIS: Lessons of 15 Years of Land Reform and Farm Restructuring

Agricultural and Food Policy,

A DECADE OF LAND REFORM AND FARM RESTRUCTURING: WHAT RUSSIA CAN LEARN FROM THE WORLD EXPERIENCE

Agricultural and Food Policy,

INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE: HOW TO INCREASE COMMERCIALIZATION

International Development,

PERSPECTIVES ON FUTURE RESEARCH IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN TRANSITION AGRICULTURE

Measuring the Progress Toward Market is proposed as the unifying theme for the next stage of transition research. The main areas included in the research agenda focus on land ownership and land markets, changes in farming structure and farm organization, agricultural labor adjustment, introduction of hard budget constraints and real bankruptcy procedures. The emergence of functioning market services should be studied in the perspective of demonopolization and competition, with special emphasis on development of service cooperatives.International Development,

Farm Fragmentation and Productivity: Evidence from Georgia

Farm Management, Productivity Analysis,

DUALITY OF FARM STRUCTURE IN TRANSITION AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF MOLDOVA

The duality of farm structure in Moldova is manifested by the existence of a relatively small number of large corporate farms at one extreme and a very large number of small and very small family farms at the other. “Medium-sized” family farms, the backbone of any market agriculture, virtually do not exist in Moldova. Moldovan agriculture is characterized by a much greater concentration of land in large farms than agriculture in market economies. The small individual farms on the whole are more productive and more efficient than the large corporate farms. They produce higher incomes for rural families than corporate farms. The main conclusion of the paper is that land should be allowed to flow from large corporate farms to small family farms through the medium of land markets until an equilibrium is established between the two farm sectors at a new level closer to that observed in market economies.farm structure, efficiency, productivity, land fragmentation, land concentration, farm size, Moldova, Farm Management, Productivity Analysis,

Agrarian Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Achievements and the Unfinished Agenda

Agricultural and Food Policy, International Development, Land Economics/Use,

FINANCING OF GROWTH IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES

Sources and uses of funds in agricultural cooperatives are examined and compared to the aggregate of nonfinancial corporations for the period 1973-1987. Cooperatives are observed to finance nearly half their growth with equity. The equity financing proportion of cooperatives is statistically indistinguishable from the national average of nonfinancial corporations in the years 1973-1983 and is consistently higher than the national average since 1984. This finding contradicts the hypothesis of equity shortage in cooperatives.Agribusiness,