Agriculture in Structurally Weak Regions - Analysis and Approaches taking the region of Western Pomerania as an example [German]

摘要

In Western Pomerania, a peripheral and structurally weak region, the structure of agricultural production mainly consists of cash cropping and dairy farming. These sectors are highly competitive and profitable. Even if agricultural framework conditions deteriorated slightly their competitiveness would most probably be maintained. The disadvantage of this one-sided orientation of agricultural production is, in particular, the lack of regional interlinkages and impetuses for the region's development as well as its heavy dependence on politics. Furthermore, it can no longer be ensured that farmers continue to manage less-favoured areas should framework conditions deteriorate. Consequences like farm abandonment, job cuts and an uncontrolled increase in fallow land cannot be ruled out for the regions concerned.