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In the European Union, alternative housing systems (aviary, barn, free-range, organic) are increasingly used in laying hen populations (49.6%). Hungary is one of the member states where modified cage housing technology is prevalent, but this may change in the future. For this reason, the economic aspects of egg production farms with different housing technologies should be examined in Hungary. The...
This study aims to identify the conditions for the development of social farming in the province of Mazovia, and to present the opportunities and barriers to the establishment of care farms in Poland. The study involved the method of desk-based literature review and the method of descriptive statistics. The paper provides an analysis of various forms of social farming functioning in the European Union...
The goal of the research is to assess the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on the three dimensions of resilience of farming sectors: robustness, adaptability and transformability. The chosen subject of the research was Polish horticulture and the examined period was the financial framework 2014-2020. The research was based on qualitative data analysis, including policy documents analysis and...
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effects of EU support for afforestation in Poland. The research concerns afforestation measures under three subsequent Rural Development Programmes: 2004-2006, 2007-2013, 2014-2020. The examined period covers the years between 2004 and 2018. The analysis indicated that during the examined years about 80,000 ha of land were afforested. Thanks to the measure,...
Due to the growing importance of sustainable socioeconomic development at a national level, this paper makes an attempt to identify and assess the relationships between agriculture and the environment in European Union countries in light of input–output tables. To meet that objective, data was retrieved from input-output tables and European environmental accounts. The analysis covered material input...
In the paper, the range of rye price variability was determined and a decomposition of a time series of prices was carried out, distinguishing seasonal, cyclical and irregular fluctuations. The rye market is a market of a product produced seasonally but with a storage period longer than one season, which influences seasonal changes of prices, on which economic changes overlap. The research material...
The aim of this study was to assess dependencies between extreme rates of return from commodity futures contracts on selected markets in the years 2000-2018. In periods of upheavals and turbulences, in markets for investors and portfolio management, it is crucial to estimate the probability of risk factors simultaneously taking extreme values. The analyses were conducted on dependencies between extreme...
The aim of the article is to present and evaluate the effects of the deficit of professional drivers and changes in remuneration on the activities and development opportunities of road freight transport enterprises from rural areas of Western Pomerania. To achieve this objective, literature analysis, comparative analysis and elements of descriptive statistics were used. The research material was constituted...
The aim of the paper is to identify elements of seasonality in supply and demand in the liquid biofuels sector in Poland and Germany. An additional purpose is to present forecasts for selected aggregates until 2020. Two research questions have been formulated for their implementation: (1) is biofuel production in Poland higher in spring or summer (due to the seasonality of agricultural raw material...
The paper aims to assess the factors affecting the financial security of agrarian enterprises to create the proper conditions for the stable functioning of agricultural enterprises. The research period covers the years 2013-2016. Agrarian business management is currently affected by times of instability and uncertainty leading to an increase in economic and financial risks. The situation in agriculture...
The purpose of this paper was to compare the investment amounts and efficiency of productive input between Polish and Romanian dairy farms depending on whether they access funds under the second pillar of EU’s CAP. The study covered the particularities of farms who access investment funds under the 2nd pillar of EU’s CAP, which allowed to identify the differences between beneficiaries and the control...
In this article, the chosen aspects of innovativeness of food industry against other branches of low technology were discussed. The analysis of innovative potential was made with the use of the following indicators: the share of innovative active enterprises incurring expenses on innovative activity and cooperating in this range and the expenditure level attributable to the enterprise incurring expenses...
The study shows the importance of projects implemented in the 2007-2013(5) perspective under the existence of a local action group for rural development on the example of the Association for the Development of Płock Land. Based on the analysis of projects implemented by all beneficiaries in 6 communes of the Płock district, the size and directions of funds allocation by the commune were determined...
The main objective of the research was to identify the level of entrepreneurship in Polish voivodships, understood as being active in creating new entities of the national economy. Moreover, the author ran her own study aimed at finding out the respondents’ inclinations for entrepreneurial attitudes. To achieve the assumed goals, the author used mass statistics figures entered into the system of full...
The purpose of the article was an attempt to identify spatial diversity of counties in the Warsaw capital region in terms of the degree of development of the tourism function in the period of 2005- 2017. Measuring the tourist function of a county requires the use of indicators that enable comparisons with other administration units. Therefore, some indicators based on the number of tourists accommodated,...
The article presents the instruments of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy for the fruit and vegetable market. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanism of support for soft fruit producers, which was introduced in Poland in 2008. Changes in the area of plantations of raspberries and strawberries, the yield of these fruits and the variability of purchase prices for processing were examined...
The aim of the paper was to indicate differences in income from agricultural activity earned by farm owners located in different zones under the influence of a big city. The study covered entities from six voivodships: Lower Silesia, Lubelskie, Lesser Poland, Masovia, Pomerania and Greater Poland. The database of the Polish FADN system was the source of data presented in the analysis. The outer and...
In recent decades, there has been increasing interest in local products which are a major field of short supply chains. A considerable amount of literature has been published on SFSCs, which mainly deal with the benefits and detriments of this kind of cooperation. Being regarded as the aim and focal point of this current scrutiny, SFSCs are especially studied in the context of producing and selling...
The purpose of the analysis was to determine the degree of use of renewable energy sources in Poland in comparison to other EU countries. The article presents the degree of use of renewable energy sources in Poland against a background of European Union countries together with the quantitative use of renewable energy sources in Poland, since 2010. Poland, like other EU countries, aims at meeting its...
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