HOW THE INVESTMENT SUPPORT MEASURES IMPACT ON THE ECONOMIC STATE OF FARMS

The farms sustainable development is determined to a big degree by their investment activity. In the first investment period (2007-2013), as well as in the present period of CAP special attention has been payed to measures encouraging structural investments. One of these measures targets is the increase of farmers’ economic potential. Generally, the investment support covers a part of total costs necessary for realizing of different by their duration programs (single, short-term, medium-term and long-term), related to the investment activity in a farm (Dwyer, 2005). Investment subsidies are often related to the criteria, subordinated to environment protection and farms economic sustainability. This paper aim is to present the results of ех-post and ех-ante analysis of investment support measures impact of farms economic state, in relation their investment activity.