Influence of Public Support Measures in Rural Municipalities

Topics: Changes in the municipality in the last 15 years; reasons for these changes; local measures to improve infrastructure as well as living and working conditions; judgement on individual measures; attitude to reparcelling agricultural land and the farm for ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe; judgement on the development of tourism in the municipality; renting rooms to vacation guests; last vacation and personal participation in a recuperation or health resort stay; leisure activity; recommendations on village beautification; existence of neighborhood help; participation in adult education events; manner and extent of attendance of adult education centers; school degree of parents.

Farmers were also asked: company size; changes in the company conducted and planned; subsidies applied for or received; assessment of the importance of subsidies; presence of business advisers; attitude to industry-wide cooperation; membership in co-operatives; completion of production and delivery contracts for agricultural products; assumed consequences for one´s own company from integration of agriculture into the EC; reading an agricultural technical journal; contact with other farmers.