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Sustainability of small wine producers in the Republic of Croatia through changes of estate structure

Small wine producers are an important segment of Croatian production structure in the field of viticulture. On the other hand, globalization designs our present much more then any other modern process. If globalization (Taylor, 2002) is, in short, defined as a process in which “ globalization is global convergence prices of goods” , then the question of production cost becomes the central question solved through economies of scale (the size of production unit). Therefore, the question (i) of small producers sustainability in globalization conditions and (ii) fragmented Croatian estate structure, and along with (iii) efficiency of stimulation policy, and (iv) trends in concentration of viticulture estate structure, are the subject of this work. In this article, data sources from CIVV and CAEI were used, and the data was evaluated by methods of descriptive statistics with special emphasis on Gini coefficient nonlinearity. Based on ad hoc quantification (average changes rate), changes of number of vineyards, area up to 0.5 ha and those of 100 ha, an increase in the number of both categories is noticed. However, dynamics of yearly increase of the number of vineyards up to 0.5 ha is 4.3 times bigger then of that those over 100 ha. According to present dynamics of concentration in Croatian viticulture, the process will be slow and long. Particularly, the high dynamics of increase in number vineyards, area up to 0.5 ha, is encouraging, but also worrying in terms of tendency. The encouraging aspect is the possibility of adequate organization through cooperatives or viti-vini clusters as organized-business forms, while the worrying aspect is the possibility of, by means of stimulation policy measures, encouraging only up to date "non-winegrowers" to enter this production, and them being exclusively motivated by the stimulation part of stimulation policy.

small wine producers; globalization; estate structure

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