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Farmers in Greece are faced with highly concentrated markets upstream and downstream. Land prices are still high relative to neighbouring Balkan countries. The credit market suffers from high interest rates, mainly due to the dire conditions of the bank sector, and the privatization of the Agricultural Bank of Greece. The farm inputs industry is highly oligopolistic and captures a large share of agricultural rents. The retail sector is able to charge high margins in agri-food products. Farm cooperatives are very weak, being highly leveraged and suffering from severe issues of mismanagement and corruption.

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Karantininis, K. (2017). Markets. In: A New Paradigm for Greek Agriculture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59075-2_4

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