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The aim of this study was to determine the level of outlays on investments farms specializing in milk production depending on the scale of dairy cows breeding. The research involves agricultural holdings in Poland covered by FADN system in 2004–2009, in which the value of milk production in the total output was more than 60%. Studies have shown proportional relationship between the size of outlays...
The paper presents the use of EU funds by farmers on the territory of Lubelskie Voivodeship used for investment activities concerning agricultural technology. Analysis covered pre-accession funds and activities within PROW (the Rural Areas Development Programme). From 2004 to the middle of 2011, 15,410 benefi ciaries used over PLN 1.5 mld. Owners of bigger farms of the average area over 40 ha were...
Market liberalization and infl uence of the foreign competition were evident mainly in reductions of the areas with cereals, sugar beat and potatoes. In the case of sugar, there was mainly the infl uence of the reformation of sugar regimen by reducing the number of sugar beat processors. The year 2009 and also the year 2010 in terms of weather were very diffi cult for the farmers. Intensive rainfalls...
The article presents the results of an inquiry research carried out in 2011 among specialist and general retail grocery outlets offering organic food. A comparative analysis of the width and depth of organic products range was conducted and grounds for lack of the offer complexity, particularly in retail grocery outlets, were presented as well. The sources of supply in basic products groups and the...
Mazovian Voivodeship is an area where socio-economic situation is signifi cantly diverse. It is a real challenge for regional development policy which in Poland aims at increasing competitiveness and achieving cohesion by 2020. The use of selected taxonomic measures to compare the development level of selected communes in Mazovia allowed to determine whether the regional policy so far has led to socio-economic...
The deagrarization process which manifests itself through the systematic decreasing of the role of agriculture in the productive involvement of human labour, as well as providing income for maintaining the rural population is progressing in the Polish countryside. Statistical data, regardless of the source, shows an unfavourable situation on the labour market for the population residing in rural areas...
The paper contains an overview of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) implemented in food and agricultural enterprises. The description of the sector summarizes some unique features compared to numbers describing food production aspects in Europe. For better understanding of the whole phenomenon the paper describes an innovative processes and technology progress in general and in the sector...
The article deals with the issue of the links between technological and marketing innovations. The theoretical part of the paper presents defi nitions and key features of marketing innovations, as well as it indicates the potential cause-effect relations between decisions to introduce process and product innovations and the implementation of new methods in marketing mix. The empirical part of the...
This article presents evaluation of effi ciency of the production scale of Polish milk processing companies in 1999–2010 performed basing on non-parametric methods. The non-parametric approach stemmed from linear programming method known as the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The study involving a sample of 743 objects revealed increasing returns to scale observable in the Polish dairy sector...
Over the past twenty years, retail trade in the border zone areas in Poland has been characterized by a great dynamics of change, mainly due to unregistered cross-border trade. The present article investigates the process in the light of theoretical approaches to the problem. The existing models, however, are applied to economic conditions in which the range of activity of the commercial enterprise...
The objective of the paper is to identify the preference factors in the choice of shopping place by seniors and key factors infl uencing seniors decisions in grocery stores. To explore views and opinions of older people in relation to preferred place of shopping, a research sample of 126 senior participants was created. Decision factors and motives in 5 areas have been explored: price policy, product...
Disproportions of economic, social and environmental in the development of rural areas occur at every level of an administrative division of a country. These disproportions are applicable to the actions which are and should be taken not only to better the economic situation of rural areas, but to increase the standard of living for the villagers as well. The aim of this article is both to identify...
Multi-asset options are options with payoffs affected by at least two underlying instruments. These instruments can be assets such as stocks, indices, currencies or commodities. An important factor infl uencing values of multi-asset options is correlation among log-returns of underlying assets. Thus the options are also called correlation options. In the paper there are presented description and models...
The presented study takes up the issues of migration for economic purposes experienced by rural population coming from two Podhale districts: Czarny Dunajec and Poronin and focuses on social and economic consequences of this phenomenon – both in its positive and negative aspect. The research was conducted on a 90-people sample of adult inhabitants of the districts by means of a survey questionnaire...
Changes in perception of the rural areas from the perspective of agriculture only gave the impulse for emergence of a new direction in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). The Leader initiative established in 1991 aims at activating rural communities and rational local resources management. Local action groups (LAG) that assume the form of agreements of three local sectors...
The aim of the work is to present relation between the structure of farm organization, determined according to the economic system and the system of integrated production in a large-scale farm 2004–2011. The material for investigation originated from farm accounting data and from the charts of fields history. It was worked out with the use of vertical and horizontal analysis, as well as synthetic...
The primary goal of the paper is to state the financial benchmark values for liquidity ratios in Slovak agriculture. Authors measured liquidity with current ratio, quick ratio and cash ratio which are the traditional way of liquidity measurement. Using descriptive statistics authors describe the liquidity performance of more than 1,100 enterprises in each period in 2004–2011. Based on the results...
In the paper is modeled demand for dairy products based on the consumer price of milk product and disposable cash incomes available to households of employees, households of self-employed persons and pensioners by regression and correlation analysis and marketing research. In examining the consumption of dairy products was quantified elasticity of demand, own price elasticity, indirect (cross) elasticity...
The article discusses the attitudes of rural population with uncertain income on the labour market. It pays attention to the main source of income in the group under investigation and the influence of education on the occupational activity. The respondents were observed to exhibit mostly passive and conservative attitudes, which were manifested with their poor engagement in searching for employment...
The economic crisis with its origin in 2008 has influenced many areas of consumer life. It also determines their behaviour related to purchasing and consuming products, including food products. An example of an important product in the human diet is meat consumed by the Poles at the level of more than 75 kg per person per year, which on one hand has adequate nutritional value and is consumed by the...
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