Agricultural transformation of the Western Balkan's countries in the transitional period

Abstract

Transformations process in the agriculture of the West Balkans countries implied land reform and reconstruction of the agricultural holdings, rather privatization of the agricultural land and transformation of the agricultural structure. That process has had considerable influence on development performances of the agriculture - trend of production and labor and land productivity. Characteristics of the transition period in those countries are decrease of agricultural production and land productivity, and stagnation labor productivity, similarly in the other central and eastern European countries in transition. .