apart from the weak incentives for land transfer through land market the prohibition to sublease land makes short and mediumterm adjustments in land use outside the land market difficult petrick et al the low mobility of agricultural land is an important impediment to reallocating agricultural land to more efficient users the number of active operations that emerged from the former collective farms increased from under in to in of which were units which maintained their collective organisation in various legal forms called agricultural enterprises average size just over hectares and newly emerged individual farms average size of hectares the remaining state farms were experimental stations