Family farms are wide-spread farming forms in the majority of the world, which have different significance in every country on the basis of their roles in agricultural production and their economic importance. This difference is thanked to the altering farm structure, thus their judgement is even different. The competitiveness of farms operated by families have been a debated issue for a long time in Hungary, because of their problems in size, which raise the question of the opportunity to produce effectively. It is a notable fact, that the majority of these farms are so called forced farms, which ensure only income supplement and provide the family with own produced food. This question is not so simple, as we must not forget that most of the concerned farmers deal with agriculture because there is not any other opportunity, and if they gave up their job, they would be in danger of losing their existence.