Labour force in agriculture has declined dramatically in Czech Republic since 1989: The number of people working in agriculture in 2012 is only one fifth of that in 1989. Transformation of Czech agriculture caused a departure of many people (often young and well educated) for other sectors. Some previous members of agricultural cooperatives have started to run an agricultural business themselves. Some people who owned agricultural land but had not worked in agriculture (nor had any experience) joined them. It is evident that the general decline of Czech agrarian labour force affected significantly also farm managers. Long-term low rate of inflow of young people leads to a very unfavourable age structure of agricultural labour.
Drlík, J., Spěšná, D.
Characteristics of farm managers in Poland and selected Central-Eastern European Countries, Warsaw 2013, č. 84.1, s. 34-46, ISBN 978-83-7658-409-6