Analysis of the Provision of the Agricultural Farms with Own Machinery

P. DJANDARMOV

Abstract: The purpose of the present article is on the base of an analysis to draw the basic trends of the provision with own machinery and equipment for the different types of agricultural farms. In the survey is used official statistical information of MAF. Applied scientific methods are: Analysis and Synthesis, Method of the Statistical groups,Benchmarking, Expertise, etc. The basic indexes are analyzed, characterizing the provision of the farms with machinery - number and relative share of farms with own machinery, average number of machinery by type, per farm, etc. The analysis is carried out for all farms by type, according to their legal status and size. On the base of the analysis can be made the following conclusions: - A considerable difference is observed in the provision with own machinery, by type of agricultural farms. In the huge farms is achieved a relatively higher grade of provision, identified as holdings of entities, compared to the small farms of individuals; - The preservation of the dualistic organization economic structure of Bulgarian agriculture predetermines the low level of average provision of the agricultural farms with own machinery; - The positive trend of increase of the number of the agricultural producers, possessing own machinery- increasing in number do not lead to considerable change of the index Average number of machines per farm. - On the contemporary stage, with the improvement of the economic and institutional environment for the agricultural farms, the shared utilization of machinery (under rent or jointly owned) becomes an unattractive form of provision of the mechanization of the workflows.

Keywords: farms; own farm machinery; used agricultural area

Date published: 2018-03-27