This is Bazyli Czyzewski again.
I agree with Loupa Pius (Message 12) that "small farms cannot only be defined maybe by land size...". But what is wrong with the definitions that we use in Poland which are grounded in many papers concerning the European Union (EU) agriculture? According to this approach, there are the following possibilities:
1) based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) typology as a unit with SO (Standard Output) below or
equal 25,000 euros,
2) as "microfarm type" for farms smaller than the FADN above mentioned threshold,
3) as a "semisubsistence farms" where less than 50% of the agricultural output is sold, with the remainder being consumed within the farm household.
The last one is usually used in Polish research
Bazyli Czyżewski, PhD. (hab.)
Associate professor
Department of Education and Personnel Development
Investigator in Research Group of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics Departmnent
Poznań University of Economics
Poland
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bazyli_Czyzewski
E-mail: b.czyzewski (at) ue.poznan.pl
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