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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   FAMILY FARMING IN HUNGARY.

Authors:  PÉTER CSILLAG, SÁNDOR ELEK, ÁKOS NÉMETH. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In opposite to the original plans and expectations family farming remained a permanent component of Hungarian agriculture after collectivisation. Nevertheless, these farms differed from family farms of market economies. These farms were overwhelmingly small-sized, part-time businesses. However, at the end of the 1980s family farms produced more than one third of the Hungarian agricultural output. In Hungary, the role of family farming within agriculture gained in importance after the transformation and privatisation compared to the role it used to have in the planned economy. Nowadays, private persons own about 90% of the agricultural land and half of the land is cultivated by individual (family) farmers. Family farms produce roughly half of the agricultural production. But in contrast to expectations the proportion of full time farmers remained rather slow (Elek, 1991).  
         
     
         
         
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