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The objective of this paper is to present the structure of milk production in EU countries. The authors used data from Main Statistical Office to highlight the changes. The authors used descriptive and graphical methods to analyze the changes in EU milk production. The production of cow’s milk per capita in kg and milk yield in EU was analyzed. The authors also evaluated the production of selected...
The aim of the research was to indicate assets related to the export of dairy products. This was addressed to milk producers, co-operatives and bankers influencing the level of milk prices - after the elimination of the quota system and an indication of desirable investment destinations. The study was based on USDA data for the period 2005-2014. Average purchase prices, expressed in USD, were used...
The purpose of the article was to present the specifics of indirect taxes in agricultural activities in Poland, the analysis of the VAT rates in the European Union and the presentation of survey results relating to indirect taxes in agriculture. Indirect taxes, i.e. VAT and excise tax, cause delamination of the market prices of goods and services. In the agricultural activity what is crucial are VAT...
The article examines the essence of undertaken quality-promoting activities, based on the international standards of quality management and food safety in a complex food chain. Moreover, it exposes the specificity of the aforementioned international standards. The studies, which were conducted by the author, show that in the former Middle Pomeranian province, among 141 agribusiness entities (regardless...
The aim of the article was to present the cooperative banking system functioning in the United States of America. Article was related to the organizational structure of the system and basal its functions. The analysis showed that the US cooperative banks are focus on their activities on financing activities of farms and agricultural enterprises by providing them with loans. More than 85% of the loan...
The article presents the economic conditions of development of rural tourism, including agritourism. Empirical studies were conducted, covering a population of 42 service providers, in 2014 in selected rural communities in Podlaskie province. The analysis of responses shows that the opportunity to earn additional income was the most frequently reported reason for starting the provision of tourist...
The aim of the paper was to show the diversity of FADN dairy farms by presenting standard deviations and Gini coefficients of main features describing these farms in 2011 in relation to 2004. It was considered that the level of differentiation of surveyed households increased, so there was cluster analysis used in order to find regions with the majority of households with similar characteristics,...
The necessity of chemical use reduction in agriculture is frequently mentioned. Due to the technical development of chemical and machine industries, we have solutions to spread fewer ingredients per hectare than we did 30 years ago. One of these techniques is site-specific crop production. Depending on the number of farms and land used by turning to site-specific pesticide use, the savings vary between...
An examination of organic farming as an innovative product supplier for the food industry concerning area designated for organic agriculture, the number of organic farms and their average hectarage, the structure of those farmlands, the number of processing plants, and a number of selected organic foods and their market share. In short, organic farming as a supplier of products to the food industry...
Globalization has opened the market for small and medium size enterprises. However, global corporations have become the largest competitors for local companies. The key actors of rural economies are small and medium size enterprises. The condition of rural economies is significant in connection with the condition of local firms and their local competitiveness. This paper summarizes the most important...
The general objective of this study is to present the main problems, potential outlooks and challenges of the Hungarian dairy sector in connection with the general social and economic situation. Problems that have been implicated as playing a role in the low competitiveness of Hungarian dairy supply chain arise from the internal capabilities of the sector and the country. Most of these problems are...
Celem badań było przedstawienie zrównoważonego rozwoju produkcji rolniczej na przykładzie przeciętnego gospodarstwa rolnego w Polsce. Badanie przeprowadzono za pomocą wielokryterialnych modeli optymalizacyjnych. Na podstawie danych statystycznych zbudowano dwa modele. Model I opisywał gospodarstwo rolne z produkcją roślinną, model II z produkcją roślinną i zwierzęcą. Funkcje celu tych modeli dotyczyły...
The article focus on changes taking place in the EU-27 in the period 2000-2013 in the field of the factor productivity in agriculture and production structures, understood as the relations between factors of production. Partial productivity ratios and structure indicators have been calculated on the basis of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture, available in Eurostat database. Thesis on convergence...
The aim of the research was to show the issue of introducing advance on individual farms by employees of Mazowiecki Agricultural Advisory Centre. Based on the results of a survey conducted in Łosice county it was noticed that cooperation with advisers declares 25.8% of the farmers. The respondents claimed that 31.7% of advisors have an appropriate knowledge and skills to introduce the advance in rural...
People tend to compare themselves with other people from their surroundings. This leads to a situation, in which even a rich person in absolute terms, can feel poor in relative terms, if people from surroundings are richer. We call it relative deprivation. Farmers in developed economies claim to be poor, because they compare themselves not with farmers in poor economies, but rather with other members...
The paper aims at assessment of revenues of local budgets of rural communities in Ukraine under conditions of current administrative-territorial division. In order to perform an in-depth analysis on the local level the case of Lviv province (oblast) and its districts (rayons) is used, showing revenues of local budgets, aggregated at the level of rayons. Since the financial support of rural development...
In Hungary the less developed regions are mostly agricultural based, to help close the gap between the developed and less developed regions every opportunity needs to be investigated. In this study the use of agriculture as an attraction to increase tourism is investigated by examining US examples in Kentucky which is also a state where agriculture is the main activity. In the analysis a questionnaire...
We can observe increasing volatility in rapeseed prices caused by the progressing process of globalisation in the turnover and processing of this raw material. It increases the exposure of rapeseed-producing entities and rapeseed-processing enterprises to price risk. The aim of this study is to assess the extreme price risk on the market of rapeseeds and processed rapeseed products in Poland. The...
Over the recent years activities in the field of territorial marketing have been gaining in importance in Poland. Specially programmed marketing activities enable communes, districts or regions to obtain such necessary development factors as financial capital, human capital, tangible items and technology. Local authorities play a crucial role in this field as they are the main entities that prepare,...
Significant transformation processes have been taking place on rural areas, especially those close to big cities. Some communes, which are still described as rural ones, can be a part of functional metropolitan regions. The aim of the study was to verify if such a situation takes place in the case of the Warsaw Metropolitan Area. The study showed that there are some rural communes, according to the...
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