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Present-day Central and East European agriculture is characterized by a high incidence of small-scale farmers who are not producing for the market. This article uses household-level data from comparative farm surveys in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania to analyze the extent of subsistence farming and to investigate which farm household characteristics and endowments influence commercialization of agricultural produce.Present-day Central and East European agriculture is characterized by a bimodal farm structure with a very large number of small-scale individual farms and a small number of large farms organized in a corporate or cooperative way. More than ten years after the transition began, markets have not yet fully developed, and market-based middle-sized farms are rare (Sarris, Doucha, and Mathijs 1999). Many small-scale farmers produce only for their own con-

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