DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):74-93 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.005

Underlying characteristics of the overall development and structure of agriculture in the Cohesion Regions of the Visegrad countries after 2005

Denisa Dvořáková, Věra Bečvářová
Institute of Regional and Business Economics, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1665/ 613 00 Brno

The paper deals with the development of the size and structure of agriculture in the Cohesion Regions of the Visegrad Group countries. It focuses on the specification of the basic tendencies of the development of this sector in the region of the Central Europe in the period after the accession of the Visegrad countries to the European Union in 2004. For this purpose, the dynamics of the development and structure of agriculture are analyzed and compared over a period of years 2005-2015 in the NUTS 2 regions of the V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia). The following indicators are used: total values of agricultural production, total values of crop production and total values of livestock production in millions of euros. The analyses carried out refute the generally proclaimed attempt to unify, or converge, the economies in this sector at the level of 35 Cohesion Regions. The beta convergence instrument presents a divergence tendency between NUTS 2 regions for all the indicators examined. The level of utilization of growth potential of Cohesion Regions from the indicators can also be assessed. Results of beta convergence analyses are graphically presented in the paper using correlation diagrams.

Keywords: Visegrad group, Cohesion regions, value of total agricultural production, value of total crop production, value of total livestock production, beta convergence, sigma convergence, correlation diagram

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Dvořáková, D., & Bečvářová, V. (2021). Underlying characteristics of the overall development and structure of agriculture in the Cohesion Regions of the Visegrad countries after 2005. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, 13(1), 74-93. doi: 10.32725/det.2021.005
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