The range and the structure of subsidies in agriculture companies reaching a different economical level

Abstract

The paper deals with a range and a structure of subsidies in agricultural companies reach a different economic level and farm in different natural conditions.The research realized within a set of 109 agricultural companies of NUTS II South-East throughout the years 2001-2003 shows that the endowment support of field economy had the same extent in the main (subsidies for 1 ha of agricultural land and for one worker), both in the group of different economic level and in the group of agricultural companies running their own business in different natural conditions during this period.The structure of subsidies, in a view-point of their special purpose, is a bit different among the companies running businesses in less favored areas (LFA), namely in a higher share of subsidies supporting a non-production asset, ecological agriculture and beef-raising.