WORK PRODUCTIVITY IN WINE FARMS IN SELECTED COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

In the European Union, one of the industries which is of great economic and market importance and accordingly is to a large extent dependent on quantity and quality of labour resources is viticulture and wine production. The main objective of the research was to determine the productivity of work in wine farms in selected EU countries in the years 2004–2017. It was found that there was an increase in labour productivity in wine farms in almost all countries selected for research. The largest increase was recorded for Czech, Portuguese and Bulgarian farms. Nevertheless, the highest productivity of work was characteristic for French, German, Austrian and Italian farms. Additionally together with the increase in the economic size of wine farms, the productivity of work increased too.