Subsistence and Commodity Production

Agricultural Small Producers in a North Hungarian Village

Abstract

The authors present the economic and social trends determining the present history of a segment of rural Hungary by the description of a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. They deal primarily with the changes of private agricultural production resulting from restitution and from the entire transformation of the political and economic environment. They make an attempt to describe the present types of private agricultural production, to separate subsistence from the development of commodity production and try to answer to the question how far does agriculture offer an opportunity of survival and emergence to the population of a village in an industrially deprived region in the mid-90s.