Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Š. Buday Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Bratislava Title: Land market and agricultural land use after the EU enlargement Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 145 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/869-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/869-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:869-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S. Buday Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Title: Agricultural land market in Slovakia Abstract: 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. Keywords: land market, land market prices, land area, plot size, official land prices Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 146-153 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/863-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/863-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:863-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Němec Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: J. Kučera Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Land market development after the accession to EU Abstract: 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. Keywords: land market, prices of the agricultural land, regional differences in prices Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 154-160 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/866-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/866-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:866-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: E. Hamza Author-Workplace-Name: Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary Author-Name: K. Miskó Author-Workplace-Name: Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary Title: Characteristics of land market in Hungary at the time of the EU accession Abstract: 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 and good quality land of favourable location in certain countries or larger plots of arable and forestry land. Characteristically, the poorer quality, less accessible land of less favourable location in the neighbourhood of the depopulated, cul-de-sac villages is in oversupply. Scattered, wedged properties of small size or of unclear ownership (undivided common land) are difficult to sell. Many of the vendors are older people with subsistence worries or people who obtained the title by compensation but do not wish to get involved in cultivation. Increasingly more buyers are well capitalised farmers, who wish to increase their holdings, or to unite their property (by land swap). Another significant group of buyers wish to invest into landed property located in the neighbourhood of larger cities, at popular sites, next to main roads or motorways. According to our survey, in the immediate years before the EU accession land and lease prices increased significantly, many fold in relation to quality. Increases in land prices are due to a process of convergence to the EU prices intending to take advantage of the projected unified land market. Increases in lease prices are due to apportioning of the projected land based support between owner and lease holder. According to land sale experts (estate or realty agents) the land market will in the 5-10 years liven up resulting in increases in land and lease prices, although the extent of this cannot yet be prognosticated. Keywords: land, land market, land policy, land property, land use Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 161-168 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/864-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/864-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:864-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: D. Stoyneva Author-Workplace-Name: URSIT Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria Title: Land market and e-services in Bulgaria Abstract: 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 the current paper. A concept for e-service that could contribute to solving the problems is introduced; relevant e-services are summarized and a particular solution is presented that uses results of the eTen project Bizmap.net. It is described how this solution could be used in the Bulgarian land market. Keywords: agricultural land market, land prices, land lease, land transactions Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 167-172 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/868-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/868-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:868-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J.P. Boinon Author-Workplace-Name: ENESAD, Dijon Cedex, France Author-Name: J.C. Kroll Author-Workplace-Name: ENESAD, Dijon Cedex, France Author-Name: D. Lepicier Author-Workplace-Name: ENESAD, Dijon Cedex, France Author-Name: A. Leseigneur Author-Workplace-Name: ENESAD, Dijon Cedex, France Author-Name: J.B. Viallon Author-Workplace-Name: ENESAD, Dijon Cedex, France Title: Enforcement of the 2003 CAP reform in 5 countries of the West European Union: Consequences on land rent and land market Abstract: 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 production is one of the main explanations of the differences of enforcement of the reform. We analyse the first impacts of the reform. One can generally expect that the market of entitlements will be a priori limited, because of the links of the entitlements to land. The regionalisation of the calculation of the entitlements is incontestably the mechanism, which introduces the most redistributive effects, compared to the individual historical references. We examine also the consequences of the Single Payment System (SPS) on land rent and land market. Keywords: decoupling, CAP, Single Payment System, land market Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 173-183 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/860-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/860-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:860-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: K. Bradáčová Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Title: Official agricultural land price in the Slovak Republic Abstract: 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. Keywords: official price, acreage, taxes, rent Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 184-188 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/865-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/865-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:865-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: I. Yanakieva Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Agricultural Economic, Sofia, Bulgaria Title: The agricultural land problems in Bulgaria and implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy Abstract: 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. Keywords: Common Agricultural Policy, land problems, land identification, subsidies, land reform, land consolidation Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 189-193 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/870-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/870-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0008.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:870-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: E. Hamza Author-Workplace-Name: Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary Author-Name: E. Tóth Author-Workplace-Name: Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary Title: Types of private holdings and their role in subsistence of rural population in Hungary Abstract: 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. This points out the need to extend the sphere of rural activities are connected to the other sectors of the national economy. Keywords: private holding, farm structure, family labour, farm structure survey Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 194-199 Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/867-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/867-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200704-0009.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:4:id:867-AGRICECON