When focusing on the surface of globalisation highway, we might see special economic organisms sprouting from its leaks.

Farma Hucul („„Hutsul Farm“)  belongs to many economic subjects overshadowing. differences between commercial and non-profit sectors, or which gives a new and wider meaning to the word „profit“.

Aim of the social business „Farma Hucul located in Krkonose (Giant Mountains, northern part of the Czech Republic) is livestock breeding of  rare horse specie – „Hucul“ or „hutsul“. Its origin is in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, now this kind of horses prevails in western Ukraine and is used there for forest work.  Mr. Ivan Karbusicky, who came from Prague, is unusual kind of businessman. As he says, object of his business is not anything profitable at all. „One horse costs us annually 35 thousand CZK (about 1,170 Euro), we breed them for 3 years time until their adult age, and then we sell them for 40 thousand at the maximum.“ How can he explain fact that the company has not so far bankrupted when loss for a single horse exceeds 60 thousand crowns?

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„We make money for the livestock breeding by providing services for tourists: accommodation, refreshment, horse riding. Another, still more important part of our incomes is from subsidies for landscape maintenance,“ added Ivan, who left Prague shortly after his graduation at the beginning of the 1980s when he already used to work with horses as a volunteer in the Association for Nature and Landscape Protection.

Nowadays Farma Hucul operates as Ltd. company which seemingly has nothing to do with non-profit sector but during its twenty years lasting work it succeeded to protect and reproduce the tenacious, persistent horses who pasture meadows of the Giant Mountains.

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„We try to bring benefit for local landscape too,“ says Ivan´s wife who is the second partner in Farma Hucul Ltd. We agreed with the Management of Krkonose National Park on when we can do horse range and dragging.to avoid damage of vegetation including protected species of flowers. We make pastures and mowing on altogether 320 hectares and all of this area is registered in the programme of ecological farming.