Factors influencing the change in farming activity in the South Bihar region since the regime change of 1989

Lovas Kiss, Antal (2013) Factors influencing the change in farming activity in the South Bihar region since the regime change of 1989. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 58 (1). pp. 149-162. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

The transformation following the regime change radically reshaped the structure of production in the South Bihar region of Hungary. After the liquidation of the cooperative farms created during the socialist era, a variety of farming alternatives was present simultaneously, but collective production forms of a new kind were formed only sporadically. As a result a substantial part of the local population became unemployed, suffering a loss of position and status. At the same time, entrepreneurs who were quick to recognise the direction of change and were able to adapt flexibly to the constantly changing conditions gradually strengthened their financial position and increasingly became key actors in local society. This restructuring of society following the economic transformation continues to be a considerable conflict-generating factor among the local population.

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