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The aim of the study was to present the income situation of farmers’ households in Poland, in comparison with other social and economic groups of the population, depending on the number of people in a household. Based on the research of household budgets carried out by the Central Statistical Office, the level of real income and its changes between 1999 and 2008 were presented, and a projection for...
Increase in the unit efficiency of plant and animal production depends mostly on the implementation of biological progress in farms. Plant and animal breeding companies of the Agricultural Property Agency play a particularly significant role in this process in the Polish agriculture. These companies have a considerable breeding and economic potential based on extended and modernised material and technical...
This study is an analysis of the conditions, needs and opportunities for application of marketing principles in the Polish agriculture sector. A concept of strategic and operative marketing operations has been drawn up based on the general rules of marketing theory. Modification of the marketing instrument has resulted from the analysis of the nature of production process, product itself as well as...
The aim of the study was to evaluate the economic situation of three groups of farms, singled out of a sample with the economic size of 2 to 8 ESU. Farms are grouped according to the level of income from the farm, and the results are presented in a quartile system. The objective of the study was to define perspectives for the future functioning of farms in the distinguished groups of the best, average...
Financial globalization affects agricultural finance through the foreign exchange channel and the transfer of disturbances within financial systems, as well as a decrease in overall economic activity abroad. International external factors modify the nature, objectives and instruments of the national macroeconomic policy, and thus, in the narrowest perspective, the combination of fiscal and monetary...
The study presents changes that the Swiss agriculture underwent between 1980 and 2007. It also discusses factors affecting the changes in the farms organisation, identifying two groups of such factors: internal and external. As regards external factors, special attention is paid to agricultural policy changes in 1993-2011. They consisted in the introduction of direct, decoupled payments, payments...
The article uses triangulation of methods, meaning the combination of quantitative analysis of official statistical data with own qualitative analyses. The condition and dynamics of the Polish fruit and vegetable sector were analysed and results of qualitative studies on competitiveness of selected companies from the sector were presented. The resources and competence, forms of competition and rivalry...
The article discusses the problems related to the accession of the Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union in 2004 and 2007. It presents the condition of agriculture in those countries right before the accession, paying particular attention to dual nature of agriculture, where small farms located next to farmers’ houses coexisted with large state-owned and cooperative agricultural...
Semi-subsistence farms are still numerous in Poland, but it is impossible to determine their specific number. Their role in the market production is not very significant, but they cover quite a large area of agricultural land, as they played a role of the social buffer. The sample of 175 semi-subsistence farms was divided into two sub-groups according to the level of net agricultural income per one...
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