Emigration ; Farm ; Mountain farming ; Rural area ; Rural population ; Slovenia
In the article is represented and evaluated the demographic potential of mountain farms on Dravsko Pohorje. The characteristics of socio-economic structure, depopulation, deagrarization, demographic vitality, productiveness, and succession
continuity of mountain farms are described. The results indicate that demographic vitality is weakened due to permanent emigration of young population, as well as succession continuity on many farms is not assured. - (IKR)
Agricultural land use ; Agriculture ; Farm ; Rural area ; Rural planning ; Slovenia
Nowadays agriculture is not the only even not a dominant activity in the countryside. Unconsidered agriculture in the processes of spatial planning cause different problems to farms, such as decrease in the extent of best quality agricultural land
, spatial tightening of farms in rural settlements and obstructed traffic connections between farms and their production areas. As a result many farms are limited or obstructed in their future development. As a consequence social tensions appear, rural
identity of settlements and agricultural landscape disappears and there is less and less interest in farming under young people. - (IKR)
Dispersion of rural land in smaller pieces is the main obstacle in modernization as well as in greater profitability of Slovene agriculture. Through the last 30 years more commassations, irrigations or other appropriate measures on farming land
in Drava field have been performed in order to prevent the dispersion of farming land into smaller pieces and to increase the yield. The paper talks about the transformation of agriculture in Drava and Ptuj field after the year 1991 and evaluates the impact
commassation has on structural as well as productional changes in agriculture. The difference in the size of farms so far are due to social as well as landownership development, various land measures, earlier urbanization of Drava field, the geographical