The Importance of Entrepreneurial Skills for the Success of Agricultural Entrepreneurs
The Importance of Entrepreneurial Skills for the Success of Agricultural Entrepreneurs

Summary/Abstract: Dynamic changes in the economy, new arrival of quick qualitative changes, development of information technologies, as well as financial, economic and technological turbulences keep influencing changes also in agriculture. Creation of proper conditions for career development and attracting young people into agriculture represent important milestones of its development. In addition to professional expertise and specific skills fundamental in agriculture, general entrepreneurial skills, adequate knowledge and skills in the area of information technologies together with the constant personal development of the entrepreneur and his co-workers are deemed necessary in the environment of small and medium-sized farms. The aim of the paper is to analyze the range of entrepreneurial activities in agriculture and explore the current situation in the area of further personal development of entrepreneurs as well as their co-workers in the sphere of small farms in Slovakia.

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