Competitiveness of Croatian Agriculture in the Eu Market

Transition and Multifunctional Agriculture in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…Therefore, support to agricultural production will not assure quality of rural development, while quality multi-sector rural development can assure survival and raise of quality agricultural sector. International experience shows that successful local communities are the ones who manage to preserve its ambience and at the same time to achieve creative adaptation to extreme changes (Zmaić, Petrač, & Sudarić, 2009).…”

“…That way, greater portion of revenue from non-agricultural activities in total revenue have small agricultural households in dynamic economic-agriculture activities with developed infrastructure, with higher population density, with higher number of non-agriculture labor force and lower tolerance to enter laborintensive non -agriculture businesses which represents conventional ratio. On the other hand, non-agriculture businesses have higher entrance tolerance which demands higher capital investment and economically and strong agriculture households in rarely populated areas with weak infrastructure basis and undeveloped agriculture, who with their traditional technologies are blocking labor force in agriculture households (Zmaić, Petrač, & Sudarić, 2009).…”

“…Agricultural transition is long-term and very important strategic task which consists of understanding how and why situation is changing in particular branch and economy in general and of forming a vision for revitalization of the subject in question (Ćejvanović, Franić, & Rozman, 2005). Therefore, agricultural transition is complex process which comprise of several phases and refers to privatization, restructuring, competition, de-monopolization, rural area concentration and motivation of employees to achieve better market position (Zmaić, Petrač, & Sudarić, 2009).…”