DIVERSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLDS’ INCOMES AT THE ŠKOFJELOŠKA’S HILLY AND MOUNTAINOUS AREAS

V prispevku so analizirane strukturne spremembe v kmetijstvu na škofjeloškem območju. Poudarek je na empirični analizi diverzifikacije dohodkov na vzorcu kmečkih gospodinjstev (KG) v letih 2001 in 2006. Analiza je izvedena za celotni vzorec KG, za KG po socio-ekonomskem tipu in za KG po območjih z različno razvitostjo in različnimi danostmi za kmetijsko pridelavo. Število KG s poklicnim kmetovanjem se je zmanjšalo. Število tistih KG, ki opuščajo kmetovanje, pa se je povečalo. Strukturne spremembe so med območjema različne. Dohodki iz kmetijstva večini KG ne zadoščajo za preživetje in je zato diverzifikacija dohodkov neizbežna. Strategije KG so nejasne. Kmetije opuščajo kmetovanje zaradi neekonomičnosti pridelave in boljših možnosti za zaposlitve v nekmetijskih dejavnostih. KLJUČNE BESEDE: strukturne spremembe, diverzifikacija dohodkov, kmečko gospodinjstvo, hribovito območjeThis paper analyses structural changes in agriculture in the Škofja Loka’s region in Slovenia based on the empirical analysis of the income diversification in the sample of agricultural households (AHs) in 2001 and 2006. The focus of the analysis is on the entire sample of AHs, by socio-economic types of AHs and by the areas with different levels of economic development and by different stages of less favoured areas for agricultural production. The numbers of households, which are professionally engaged in the farming activities, has dropped. In turn, the number of AHs, which are abandoning the farming activities, has risen. The structural changes in agriculture and AHs differ between the differently defined areas. The household’s income derived from agriculture is insufficient to sustain and to survive for most of the AHs, making the household’s income diversification inevitable. The development strategies of the AHs are unclear. The AHs are abandoning the farming due to uneconomical production and better employment opportunities in non-agricultural activities