Czech agriculture after the accession to the European Union - impacts on the development of its multifunctionality.

摘要

This paper presents an evaluation of the multifunctionality of Czech agriculture and of its individual farm categories in the period of 2003-05. It compares the situation before and after the EU accession. The assessment is based on a set of indicators for the three elementary axes of multifunctionality: economic efficiency, relations to environment and relations to rural development. Applying this method of multi-criterion evaluation, the highest level of multifunctionality is found in the category of farms of physical persons with 101-300 ha (score of 174) and the lowest level in the category of collective farms - cooperatives and joint stock companies (score of about 115). However, compared with the pre-accession period, the collective farms show the highest growth of the multifunctionality score (by 17%) after the EU accession.