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Abstract
Functions and existence of agricultural corporate farms have concerned agricultural
economists for a long time. It is worth examining in a given market how these forms of
companies evolve, work, what effects they have on supply chain, land market or natural
environment, etc. Importance of the topic is also underpinned by western experts arguing
that a totally different pattern of agricultural structure developed in former socialist states
(superlarge farms) than in West-Europe (family farms). The aim of this paper is to
present how superlarge companies affect their environment in the Hungarian cereal
market, which is one of the leading sectors of the national agriculture. Moreover, growing
cereals are suitable for large scale companies, especially in Hungary, where 84% of the
total agricultural land was arable land in 2005.