Abstract:
According to the data of Agricultural census 1991 and 2010, the number of farms decreased with 60 percent in the last one and a half decade. Inhabitants of those settlements, which are situated in the economically most developed Central and West Transdanubian Region of Hungary, ceased agricultural production in the highest quantity. Decreasing the number of farms prevails to a lesser extent in the poor settlements of less-favoured areas. Small-scale production remains important components in the livelihood in disadavantaged settlements, especially in small vilélages, where the decline in the number of farms is less substantial therefore their numbers are still relatively high.
