The support of agricultural credit in Slovakia and in the Czech republic

The article is dealing with the development of Slovak agricultural credit during the period of economic transition, The article describes and evaluates the forms and methods of government support of this credit. Both the development of credit and the forms of government support used in Slovakia are compared with their corresponding counterparts in the Czech Republic. The article is dealing with the solution of the problem of old agricultural debt, with agricultural support funds, with government guarantee banks, with commercial agricultural banks and with direct government provision of agricultural loans.