Polish fruit and vegetables producing sector is characterized by production fragmentation. In addition, poor technical facilities, minor use of modern technologies and the narrow application of marketing mean that producers are less competitive in the world market. A way to improve this...

The aim of the paper was to present the organization of agricultural consulting in Germany. The genesis of agricultural consulting, its role, and classification of agricultural consulting offer by financing and implementation, as well as organization of agricultural consulting in the federal...

The paper presents partial results of empirical research conducted in three Polish provinces: Łódzkie, Małopolskie and Opolskie on a sample of 60 agricultural holdings which differ in terms of economic size. The study was conducted by interviewing managers of individual farms. Most of the...

The aim of this work is to analyze the current state and changes in the human capital level of individual farmers who live in the Masovian voivodeship and to determine certain relations between the human capital level represented by farmers and the economic results of their farms. The paper...

The aim of the paper was to present numbers and proportions of researched rural households which members had run own firm in the past or had not had experience in that field in before the moment of the research. Regional diversification and ownership of a farm were also taken into account as...

The paper presents results of own research as well as research of other researchers in the field of economic activity of rural inhabitants. Their elements which could be possibly interpreted from the perspective of the ‘insider-outsider’ theory were selected. This theory assumes that there...

Some problems of quality of human resources in Polish agriculture against the background of the EU were presented in this paper. The formal level of education was used as an indicator of the human factor quality. The perspective of changes in employment in the European agriculture were also...

After a short historical review, the forest as a working place creating jobs is discussed. Present trends in the forestry workforce in practically all European countries show a continuing sharp decline in the total number of jobs in the forests. When analyzing forest as a working place at local...

The EU Common Agricultural Policy creates great opportunities for the areas of Eastern Poland, mainly by means of promoting a change of its orientation towards the development of its multifunctionality. These processes must be accompanied by an increase of GDP stimulating an increase in...

The article shows the changes in the labour force in agriculture in the years 1996-2007, against the background of changes in demography and economy (farm size), as a result of socio- economic changes and Poland’s membership in the European Union. The fact that Poland joined the European Union...