The article presents the state of organic farming in the enlarged European Union (EU). It is important to emphasise the growing role of this kind of farming. In the period of years 1985-2006 the number of organic farms in the EU-27 member states has grown over 34 times and their area nearly 70...

In the article one presented changes in the resource allocation of the land and the agricultural labour in 30 countries. One paid attention on the differentiation in these processes in countries. We presented dominant processes and curiosities. One evidenced the meaning of the financial support...

The paper presents main results of a surveying 161 tenants whose opinions concerned advantages and disadvantages of renting an agricultural property as well as their motivations for renting agricultural real property from the Agency of Agricultural Real Property and other sources in the province...

The objective of the present study has been to evaluate changes in the number of sales and in the area of land real estate, including agricultural and forest land, bought by foreigners in 2000-2010, and also in the land real estate acquired via transactions such as acquisition or taking hold of...

The phrase ‘rural areas’ mean not only the place for agricultural production and the living place of rural population, but also refer to all the traditions, landscape, environment and residents of these areas. Rural development is highly supported at the EU level and it helps to enhance the...

Besides agricultural land the APA holds also non-agricultural land. Such land has been monitored by the APA since 2004. As seen from available data, the sales of non-agricultural land in recent years keeps increasing, as does the revenue on it. This is the result of several factors: Firstly,...

This paper identifies and examines the changes which took place in Polish agriculture productivity as well as in other European Union countries in the period of 2000-2008. According to an EUROSTAT data analysis concerning land productivity in Poland, greater increases of land productivity...

The article presents an analysis of the structure of inputs, production and financial results in the economic size groups in a sample of farms from FADN 2004-2008. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the commercial farms management, depending on their economic size. /...

The article presents changes in the structure of total agricultural holdings and in individual agricultural holdings with the area exceeding 1 ha in years 2002 and 2010. Those changes resulted from the increased concentration of land in agricultural holdings with over 20 ha of arable land. The...

Aim of this paper is to present the processes of land ownership concentration and intensification of cultivation in conventional agriculture on the environment in the West Pomeranian region. The result of research work is to show that the land ownership concentration process, escalating in...