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Abstract
In Western Europe, USA and other developed countries agriculture is dominated by small family
farms. In Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and Former Soviet Union (FSU) dual
structure of farms exists. There are large corporate farms (CF) and small family farms (FF) in
CEEC and FSU. Our paper shows that both CF and FF specialize in commodities in which they
have comparative advantage. CF specialize in capital intensive products and in products with low
labor monitoring. FF specialize in products with higher labor monitoring requirements. The
implication of this paper is that farm structure determines in which products the country will be
competitive on international markets. This is especially important for transition countries where
high transaction costs hinder the change of farm organization. For this reason in transition
countries suffering from high transaction cost the choice of product structure is more important
than the choice of farm organization.