The purpose of this paper is an attempt of showing the role of qualitative features of labour resources as a factor which diversifies the level of strawberry harvesting productivity. Such features as age and sex of pickers, total number of picking days, age of plantation and harvest date and...

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. /...

A high decline in employment was one of the negative consequences of economic transformation in Hungary in the past few decades. The activity of rural population continues to decrease in the EU. Agriculture has a very special role in forming the employment. The aim of the research is to examine...

The paper presented a short review of research on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimates at the global level and in the selected countries. Moreover, own study on TFP in the Polish farms during 2004-2012 based on FADN data was shown. The TFP measures were calculated for crops, milk, pigs and...

The aim of the study was to analyze the changes in the Dutch floriculture in the years 2000-2011, which help in defining the future of Polish floriculture. The changes in land use in Dutch floriculture sector, as well as in particular branches have been studied. The total acreage, number of...

The aim of his paper was to present changes in the amount and structure of fruit and vegetable processing industry production and export in Poland, in years 1993-2005. Both the production of processed vegetables and processed fruit has increased in the analyzed period. About 62% of the processed...

The article presents the most important changes that have occurred in the sugar sector in Poland from 2001/2002 until 2010/2011. During this period, sugar production fell by 4.9%, the number of factories from 76 to 18, the daily processing by 57.2% and the number of employees during the campaign...

The aim of this research was a presentation of the financial liquidity in the sector of agricultural farms in Poland and a comparison to these in the European Union. Data from the FADN database was mainly used. It enabled an analysis of the problem by country in the European Union in years...

The aim of this paper is to present the abuses and irregularities which were identified in agriculture, processing industry and trade of ecological products in the Czech Republic. The analysis shows that the most common are the irregularities in labelling the products. Other often occurring...

In recent years, the possibility of increasing production of legumes, whose area of cultivation has decreased, is being considered. It has been influenced by the yield variability which adversely affected the profitability of these plants cultivation. This paper attempts to assess the risk in...