Analysis of agricultural financing and its importance for the National economy of the Czech Republic throughout the years 2000-2017

The goal of this thesis is to analyze the ways of financing of agriculture and evaluating it’s importance for the national economy of the Czech Republic throughout the years 2000-2017. The farmers have opportunity to claim various spectrum of subsidies and to participate in different programs. The biggest amount of money is paid within the Direct transactions, one of the most important programs is called The Rural Development Program. The chosen hypothesis for this thesis is that subsidies sent into agriculture are increasing, eventhough the significance of agriculture for the national economy and it´s share on GDP is decreasing. The hypothesis was in this thesis confirmed. From the long-term point of view, it is possible to say, that in the studied period of time increase of subsidies and decrease of the share of agriculture on GDP was observed. The share size went from 2,28% in 2000 to 1,76% in 2017. The number of employed people in agriculture is also on descent with 224 001 farmers in 2000 and 163 128 people working in agriculture in 2017. The agrarian foreign trade is charecterized by negative balance in the whole monitored period of time. On the contrary, the share of the agrarian foreign trade on the total foreign trade has grown from 4,24% in 2000 to 5,30 % in 2017.