"Agricultural co-operatives belonged among the most significant employers in the agricultural sector of Slovakia in the period before 1989. In addition to their production function, they played a very important social and demographic function, especially in rural areas, helping to stop or, at least, to slow the trend of the depopulation of these areas, as well as delivering significant support to employment policy. The number of agricultural co-operatives has been continuously decreasing, but they still provide, in comparison to other businesses in the agricultural sector, most of the job opportunities. The aim of this article is to assess the extent to which a particular co-operative employs the inhabitants of a region and whether there is a link between the development of employment in that region and the co-operative that operates there. For practical research, the particular region of Nitra county has been chosen, as it is a significant agricultural area and since the decrease of the workforce in agriculture has a negative impact on the economic and social situation of the wider region. "

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