From the protectionism to the system of managed economy. Agrarian crisis and the state interventionism in the Czechoslovak agriculture between the wars, their changes after the establishment of occupational regime
Abstract
The chapter deals with the state interventionism in the Czechoslovak agriculture in the 1930s. In connection with the outbreak of crisis in agriculture wide range of measures were taken, including increase in customs duties, implementation of import surcharges and regulation of consumption.
In some branches (grain, pig farming) the direct regulation of production was drawn up. General view on interventionist policy in agriculture in the interwar period enables to distinguish several developmental phases.
However the policy doesn't seem systematic and its efficiency was rather limited. Within the context of the German occupation of the Bohemian Lands at the end of the 1930s the existing interventionist instruments were not eliminated immediately, but the policy itself (its goals) dramatically changed.