The assessment of the effects of the investment support scheme in the Czech Republic

The objective of the poster paper is to identify factors of participation in investment support scheme and to assess economic and other effects of the measures 121 “Modernisation of Agricultural Holdings” and 123 “Increasing of value added” of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2007-2013 on the Czech farms. A particular attention is paid to the issues of participation in different measures, differentiated impacts of the supports according to the production conditions and deadweight. In general, the selected measures improved performance of supported farms. Evident differences are among impacts in the farm subsamples – in the sub-sample of farms with a higher density of ruminants the economic impacts are statistically significant while in the other case are not