West European experience shows that production is efficient if the area of land use exceeds 100 ha. In fact, average area used by a single farming economy is far from being optimal even in developed states. In particular, small farms prevail in the EC countries: nearly 60% of all farming enterprises use less than 5 ha of agrarian lands each. The share of such small economies in the totality of EC farms amounts to 78% in Italy, 76% in Greece, 58% in Spain, and 34% 35% in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Finland. In contrast, the share of big economies with average land area of over 100 ha is 27% in Germany, 16% in Great Britain, 8% in France and 2% in Austria . Scientists representing the Institute of Agrarian Economics at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences conclude that farms using on the average less than 20 ha of agrarian lands in Ukraine are not rational, and efficient economy management is possible with farms that use over 150 200 ha, since cost price of land decreases with the in- crease of the cultivated land areas .
The Carpathian Region features 40% of farming enterprises that use lands of less than 5 ha, and 6% of the same using over 100 ha. The trend of farm quantity reduction with simultaneous insignificant increase of used land areas is today observed in many countries. That is,dutch buckets it is a trend of big in- vestments with simultaneous effort of agrarian lands expansion and formation of farms with developed auxiliary Assessment of nature-resource potential of the territory is an important component to help plan agricultural activity and an essential means in execution of regional policy. Comparison of nature-resource potential’s integral value and volume of gross output obtained by farming enterprises of the administrative oblasts of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine witnesses their complete correlation which is best expressed when comparatively analyzed with land resources. Further development of farming in the Carpathian Region of Ukraine in the aspect of use of its nature-resource potential requires farms’ mutual cooperation and integration as well as the same with other enterprises, that is, their inclusions into the system of agro-business on the basis of specialization and co-operation of production. In this case, farms with comparatively small land areas can also become profitable.
The extension is possible by way of incorporation of bankrupt farms. Formation of farm’s optimal land area together with the set of necessary means of production is pre-conditions to generation of commodity-competitive farming enterprise whose entrepreneurial activity would provide for gaining profit. The profit gained from product’s sale would at least allow the farmer satisfy his family’s consuming demands, and, as a maximum, let him execute extended reproduction and accumulation of capital. We find it appropriate to recommend farmers majorly specialize in production of labor-intensive cultures and some kinds of livestock growth and establishment of highly specialized enterprises engaged in bee-farming, fur farming, fish farming , etc.