摘要：Using data obtained from an investigation, the article points to the difficult position of old people’s agricultural households in comparison to agricultural households with members fit for active work. In general, old people's households possess small farms. Due to inadequate mechanical- equipment and lack of labour old people’s households also achieve lower yields per hectare, as can be seen from »natural effect of the cultivation of one hectare of arable land«. For the same reason, old people’s households, although possessing small farms, often lease their land or use hired labour and equipment. The article also deals with the pattern of spending both of old people’s and of agricultural households: generally, old people’s households appear to spend twice less and to have a less favourable structure of expenses, because they spend a comparatively larger proportion of their money on maintaining production while investing 7.5 times less money in development and modernization than do agricultural households which have enough man-power available. In recent years a large number of old people’s households have sold their land and thus ensured a livelihood for themselves.
