The Use of Econometric Methods in Family Farm Succession Studies

Zarja  Bohak; Andreja  Borec

doi:10.18690/rg.4.1.3156

Zarja Bohak Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maribor
Andreja Borec Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maribor

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/rg.4.1.3156

Keywords: family farm, farm succession, econometric methods

Abstract

Farm succession is an important issue for any family farm, for the future structure of farming and for rural policy makers. This is the process whereby the skills, traditions and capital of farming are passed from one generation to the next. Scientists realized the importance of scientific investigation of succession on family farms no more than thirty or forty years ago, as the earliest studies bear dates from 1968 on (see i.e. Nalson 1968). There are many different scientific methods used to process surveys' data or to represent the process of farm succession; this paper offers a review of foreign and Slovene studies from the last 15 years, in which econometric methods are used to describe and analyse the family farm succession process.

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Author Biographies

Zarja Bohak, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maribor

Hoče, Slovenia. E-mail: zarja.bohak@uni-mb.si.

Andreja Borec, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maribor

Hoče, Slovenia. E-mail: andreja.borec@uni-mb.si.

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