Analysis of the agricultural land market in the selected districts of Slovakia in 2011

There are no official statistics data a bout the market prices of agricultural land in the individual districts of Slovakia. In Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics in Bratislava were in 2001 selected districts to monitor transactions with land and began to create a database of size, culture and price of sold plots. The basis for the construction of a database is data on actual purchase and sales contracts obtained from the Land Register.The paper presents the results of data analysis of purchase and sales contracts inserted into Land Register in twelve selected districts of Slovakia in 2011. It was sold together 21501 plots in selected districts in 2011. The largest number of plots was sold in district Liptovský Mikuláš. The most sold land culture was arable land. In terms of size structure it was sold more plots in size class up to 1 ha also in 2011. The average purchase and sales price of agricultural land was 1,09 EUR per square m in selected districts.