Competitiveness of Hungarian Agricultural Enterprises at Different Farm Types

Nine years has passed since the EU accession, thus, it is possible to make an objective evaluation about the impacts of the accession. Several reviews were made in this topic, but most of them made their assessment at macroeconomic level. This research focuses on the impacts of accession at farm level, using the data of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database. The main goals of this research were to explore the impacts of the accession on different farm sizes and types of farming and to find which types of farming were the ‘winners’ or the ‘losers’ of the accession. For the research, the primary data of the Hungarian FADN database were used (between the years 2002 and 2009) created by the Hungarian Research Institute of Agricultural Economics. Based on the domestic and international sources, the ROE ratio was chosen as a top-indicator for measuring profitability, and was used during the further examinations. Based on the research results I show how the profitability of different farm types and farm sizes have been changed and which farm types and sizes may be considered more and less successful since the date of EU accession.