Evolution of the Czech Agriculture after the Arrival of the Czech Republic in the European Union (2004)

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Despite an agricultural sector which is well developed for a country of the post soviet union, the Czech Republic is mainly an industrial country which is one of the healthiest countries of eastern Europe and which joined the European Union during the biggest expansion of the European organization in 2004. The industrialization of the Czech Republic is old and the country was one of the ten richest countries of the world at the beginning of the previous century due to its early and risky industrialization by Tomas Bata who developed his shoes factory and improved the entire city. With a long period under the communist reign, the Czech Republic lost an important part of its prosperity but knew a revival from 1989 till now, where the Czech Republic has become a European Union member. With this accession, the Czech agricultural sector had to answer to important obligations but had take benefits of the EU agricultural policy. We will study the evolution of the Czech agriculture since the entrance of the Czech Republic into the European Union in 2004 and analyze how the Common Agricultural Policy influenced the Czech agriculture.

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[...] And third, an analyze of the influence of the CAP on the Czech agriculture will be done with a presentation of the sector before the entrance into the EU, under the communist domination till 1989 and the following decade. Then, the consequences of this policy on the primary Czech sector will be explained Summary Introduction Summary I. Presentation of the Czech Republic a. General presentation of the country and its agriculture b. The Czech Republic into the European Union II. The European Union and the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) a. The European Union b. The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) c. [...]

[...] We will study the evolution of the Czech agriculture since the entrance of the Czech Republic into the European Union in 2004 and analyze how the Common Agricultural Policy influenced the Czech agriculture. On this study, we will first present the Czech Republic, its agricultural sector and its long way to access to the European Union. Secondly, we will have a general presentation of the European Union, its construction and one of its main measures since its creation, the Common Agricultural Policy. [...]

[...] It is the culture of the rape (for its oil) and the sugar beet which are the bases of the increase of the vegetable production in Czech Republic. On farming production, the livestock decreased in the same time, especially the number of bovines with an important fall of the production of milk and beef. Some characteristic of the Czech agriculture begin to be comparable to the European average. The primary sector (agriculture, forestry, and fishing) counts of the active Czech population, but some regions are late, like Vysočina (center south) with of the workers in this sector. [...]

[...] The rural development is also more encouraged with 30% of the budget allocated to Czech Republic Agriculture against only 10% for other European Union members. The Common Agriculture Policy has, as one of its main goals, to modernize Czech infrastructures like agricultural infrastructures in all European exploitations, and it needs important investments in farm machinery. In the old member states was - 17 developed into the agricultural populations a system of farm machinery co-operative which consist in the purchase of farm machinery by several farmers together in the view to reduce their investment costs. [...]

[...] In 1962, the EEC launches the Common Agricultural Policy new target of Europe. Its goals are the common control of the alimentary production, standardization of prices in all the community, but two main targets: self sufficient production for all the EEC good revenue for producers Step by step, the EEC grow, welcoming several countries (Denmark, Ireland and United Kingdom in 1973; Greece in 1981; Spain and Portugal in 1986; Austria, Finland, Sweden in 1995 and more recently with 12 Eastern European countries) and launch some others programs as Erasmus for Student Exchange in all Europe in 1987. [...]