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AGRICULTURAE
CONSPECTUS SCIENTIFICUS
Volume 65, No 2, 2000 (79-88)
ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC
PAPER
Methodology of Measuring State Intervention in Croatian Agriculture
Ramona FRANIC
SUMMARY
Requirements for decreasing state intervention in agriculture impose the
necessity for its measuring and evaluation. Statistical observations of
domestic trends in agricultural production, markets and policies don’t
assure transparent insight in agricultural policy movements, distressing
the correct evaluation of intervention results and quality decision making.
Therefore the aim of the paper is to identify and recommend the most efficient
methods for evaluation state intervention in Croatian agriculture, with
caution in their use.
In the paper following indicators are explained: nominal and effective
rate of protection, producer subsidy equivalent and effective rate of
assistance. By these indicators state intervention can be measured at
different levels. Each indicator is subject to limitations and is approximation,
so its reliability depends on data quality in calculation. Great amount
of data gathered on agricultural markets is more useful, at this moment,
than indicators themselves. Better cooperation of market participants,
as well as ordered statistical system that guarantees fresh and and correct
published data, together with indicators of intervention, could help in
reasonable planning of further policy development in the sphere of agricultural
protection and support.
KEY WORDS
agriculture, intervention, protection, state, support
Department of Agricultural Economics an Rural Sociology
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
Svetosimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail: ramonaf@agr.hr
Received: February 28, 2000
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