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<p>The European Union‘s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides EU countries with significant resources. Land-based payments are a major part of farmers‘ income. By linking subsidies, the amount of funds received per hectare by subsidy claimants can be increased. The majority of subsidies do not impose any production obligations but simply require compliance with landscape conservation and environmental protection measures. The high level of subsidies is exacerbated by the weak euro-forint exchange rate, which has degraded some parts of agriculture into an investment. Continued concentration of land holdings has led to a significant share of subsidies going to farms which further increase land concentration and thus negative rural trends. The support for vegetable plants belongs to the category of coupled support, even though there is no obligation to produce. In the analysis of support, it is of particular importance to look at individuals and non-individuals separately, as well as the size of holdings. In my analysis, I further disaggregate the currently used categories of holdings and analyse them separately by claimant.</p>
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The European Union‘s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides EU countries with significant resources. Land-based payments are a major part of farmers‘ income. By linking subsidies, the amount of funds received per hectare by subsidy claimants can be increased. The majority of subsidies do not impose any production obligations but simply require compliance with landscape conservation and environmental protection measures. The high level of subsidies is exacerbated by the weak euro-forint exchange rate, which has degraded some parts of agriculture into an investment. Continued concentration of land holdings has led to a significant share of subsidies going to farms which further increase land concentration and thus negative rural trends. The support for vegetable plants belongs to the category of coupled support, even though there is no obligation to produce. In the analysis of support, it is of particular importance to look at individuals and non-individuals separately, as well as the size of holdings. In my analysis, I further disaggregate the currently used categories of holdings and analyse them separately by claimant.

Territorial Inequalities in Vegetable Plant Payments in Hungary

Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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The European Union‘s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides EU countries with significant resources. Land-based payments are a major part of farmers‘...

Territorial Inequalities in Vegetable Plant Payments in Hungary

Published Online: Jan 03, 2023

Page range: 94 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2022-0013

Keywords
agriculture, CAP, vegetable, direct payments

© 2022 József Lipcsei, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Territorial Inequalities in Vegetable Plant Payments in Hungary

Published Online: Jan 03, 2023

Page range: 94 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2022-0013

Keywordsagriculture, CAP, vegetable, direct payments

© 2022 József Lipcsei, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
agriculture, CAP, vegetable, direct payments