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The aim of the paper is to present current dilemmas of placing of rural areas development in regional policy. Realization of this aim was possible through a review of literature and documents connected with regional policy. There were presented two discussed models of regional policy: model of equalization vs. the polarisation and diffusion model, the new paradigm of regional policy as well as a place...
The actuality of our topie is established and justified by the fact that the cohesion policy of the European Union is criticized very much nowadays. In our opinion, the criticism primarily focuses on the low efficiency of the use of EU funds and the increasing gap between the regions. It was mentioned even at the 2010 Open Days events in Brussels that the distribution system of funds in the Union...
The concept of hungaricum is connected to keeping of Hungarian native animal species. The traditional and regional foods are the part of Hungarians national inheritance. These foods usually are hand made which can create place of work in the regions with unfavourable circumstances.
In the paper, results of the analysis of the specialization level depending on the production orientation and economic size of farms of the Polish FADN have been presented Specialization was measured using the concentration index of sales structure. The analysis shows that types of farming delimitated in the FADN system as specialist have on average a higher specialization level. However, there are...
The causality Granger test was used to assess the causal links between the prices of milk in selected European Union countries. The Granger test is based on the vector autoregression models - VAR. The conducted research allowed to identify causal relationships between the prices of milk in the following countries: Poland, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia.
Among liquid biofuels the most practical meaning has the biodiesel production from vegetable oil. The European Union has been introducing regulations that oblige fuel corporations to use admixture of biofuels in petrol and diesel fuel oil. That is why, the demand for the rapeseed oil is dynamically increasing. In order to cope with the market’s challenges, Poland must increase (almost twice) the acreage...
The objective of the paper was to assess the regional allocation of Polish Rural Development Program 2007-2013 using optimization approach. The actual allocation was compared with the result of a model simulation. Relatively small differences between the actual and model allocation show that the regional allocation performed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is relatively well tailored...
In paper the analysis of operating costs of machines was occured in agricultural farms grouped according to main type definite on ground of the Standard Gross Margin. It was ascertain that with growth of economic size of farm grow the operating costs of machines together. The smallest operating costs convert on 1 hectare of arable area occur in the Mixed crops - livestock farms. The largest operating...
The article presents the results of the surveys on the shopping habits of the Polish consumers and their change in the past decade. It discusses trends in likings and habits of the Polish consumers. It identifies the transformation of the process of shopping for the fast-moving consumer goods and the changes in the opinions and in the purchasing preferences of the consumers from 2001 to 2010 according...
The article estimates the static effects of a customs union in agri-food trade of the new Member States of the European Union. It was proved that in all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are members of the Community the acceptance of Community acquis in trade policy resulted in both the effect of trade creation and trade diversion, where the former was stronger.
This paper is about evaluation of the implementation of Local Rural Development Strategies (LRDS). We have examined what the success of the seven Leader principles is, because many LRDSs could only partly achieve their goals. The mid-term review of these strategies is going on right now. So there is still opportunity to change the regulation in order to make the accomplishment of this initiative more...
For good performance and successful activity the organizations need to have a special approach for creating its staff. AHP method isn’t used a lot in human resource department. There is very limited literature available on the application or utility of AHP in selecting employee’s process. In this article it is proposed to use AHP method in decision making process that relates to employee’s selection.
In the last decades global economic processes and decreasing agricultural employment have caused serious structural problems in a number of rural areas all over the EU and other developed countries as well. The main objective of this paper was to define the possibilities of Leader program 2007-2013 in those impaired micro-regions that suffered most from the decrease of employment in agriculture in...
The nations need more and more energy to achieve their main objectives, launching the economic growth, or at least maintaining it. There is a relationship characterized by an inverted U-shaped curve between the emissions of pollutants (some local contaminants, such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, heavy metals) per capita and GDP per capita distribution. We selected nine observation variables and...
The paper discusses problem of rural tourism and agritourism role in the healing of the economic situation of rural areas, especially in a province with the smallest average farm size and favourable natural conditions - namely in Malopolska. Agritourism (farm tourism) as a part of rural tourism is often seen as an opportunity to expand and diversify employment and incomes. But in spite expectations...
This paper aims to present a systemic approach of some important information sharing ways from the point of view from the efficiency of supply chains, and provides a short review of Hungarian retail sectors related, actual status. The success of supply chains can be based on the partnership among the member sites and especially on the quality and quantity of the shared information. The aim of profit...
The paper discusses trends in dairy cows population and milk production in Poland in the period 2004-2009 and the further changes until the year 201S. The aim of the paper was to present the key factors of the success in possibilities of reducing the milk production costs in specialized farms in Poland. Costs of production of bulky feed had about S3%. The factors were the smallest cost of: services...
The enlargement of the EU in 2004 imposed new possibilities and threats for the Central and Eastem European countries which had so far successfully protected their markets. The presenting paper tries to explore that how the agricultural foreign trade of Hungary changes in relation to the countries of the Visegrad group and what are the trends? Although the foreign trade balance is positive in total...