This article deals with the agriculture land market development in the Czech Republic. It shows the basic overview of the agriculture land sales and rental prices in the context of different types of market subjects. Up to 2012 the state ownership of the agriculture land formed prevailing part of the market offer. State agriculture land has been transferred to the private ownership by the Land fund of the Czech Republic. Because this process is actually almost finished, the private market subjects dominate the agricultural land market. Amount of the traded agricultural land in the Czech Republic, is stable in the long term. Annually over 100 thousand hectares of the agricultural land has been transferred among private subjects between 2003 and 2012. There was a minor decrease of the transferred agricultural land areas after 2013. This decrease is related with decreasing offer of the state agricultural land for private subjects. There is not any regular national survey of the agricultural land in the Czech Republic, to analyse the dynamics of the agriculture land market prices. In 2010 it was designed the sample monitoring system of the agriculture land contract prices in 5 districts of the country. For that analysis the final contract prices must be obtain. Observed agricultural land prices were around 12 CZK/m2 on the average in 2014 and at long-term the growing trend was founded. In the case of comparing land prices of individual districts of the country the results are variable between 5-25 CZK/m2. The rent costs of agriculture land per hectare increased up to 2013 twice in comparison with agriculture land price. This growth is only partly related to new owners’ obligation to pay land tax for land parcels recorded in a digitized cadastre. For the agriculture land management in the Czech Republic is typical dual holding structure. There are about 1% of the subjects, whose size exceeding 100 ha of the agriculture land for each in total utilising 85% share of the whole agriculture land in Czech Republic. Share of the owned land in the total used land is constantly growing by Czech agricultural entities of all kinds.
Hruška M., Vilhelm V.
Ekonomika poľnohospodárstva, Vol. XV. 4/2015, s. 4-23, ISSN 1338-6336