Willingness to cooperate among fieldcrop farms: an illustration from Hungary.

摘要

Concluding cooperation agreements between individual farmers is one of the realistic possibilities to ensure the viability of farms, to improve profitability and increase competitiveness in Hungarian agriculture. The paper analyses the agreements of farmers for joint machine use, focusing basically on the role of economic factors in these agreements. The results of the research point out that the economic factors (such as: size of potential income, subsidisation, capacity supply and capacity shortage) statistically provably determine cooperation willingness. We have stated on the basis of empirical analysis of Hungarian farms that none of the institutional solutions for joint machine use will have any role in the near future, in which the dependence of farmers is strong (e.g. based on joint ownership).