Development trends in Slovenian agriculture

Abstract

In the paper the development trends in Slovenian agriculture based on statistical data from general census in 1991 and census on agriculture in 2000 are presented. We present the estimations of future development of number and size of farms, as well as development trends in socio-economic and production structure of Slovenian farms after the year 2010. The development scenario foresees decreased number of farms with simultaneous increase of their size, which will still remain far below the EU average. The scenario also predicts forming of four socio-economic types of farms: full time professional farms, classical part time farms, diversified part time farms and, supplementary farms.