The analysis of economic results which was made for farms of five farming types (and of the largest economical size) proved that CAP instruments which had been created to support family farms do not perform well in the countries of former Eastern European block. High own (unpaid) labour...

Farms in Poland are dominated by small ones with several hectares of farmland. Their specific nature means that the majority of them are subsistence farms, producing mainly or exclusively for the consumption needs of their owners. These farms are significantly independent of agricultural markets...

Poland has favourable natural conditions for development of organic farming. Poland’s Accession to the European Union creates possibility to take advantage of the natural conditions for organic farming development by implementing the assistance programmes addressed to farmers. According to...

An attempt at estimating the influence of farm’s acreage, value of fixed assets and economic results on the preference for alternative bases of affording the agricultural direct payments to farms has been undertaken. Direct payments to production quantity were favourised by homesteads which...

The aim of the research was to determine the scope and the level of financial support from the EU funds to the orchard farms in the Lubelszczyzna region before and after Polish accession to the European Union. 65 orchard farmers in the Lubelskie province were interviewed by using standard...

The paper addresses issues of the economic decline of farms in the mountain and sub- mountain areas. The main objective of the work was to present opinions of users of farms reducing production concerning the way of future use of land resources at their disposal and the influence of the European...

The continuing process of global integration bears implications for the formation of food markets in the global and regional levels. According to the latest estimates, Ukraine is able to feed more than 200 million people currently. But this production should be effective not only from the...

The aim of his work was to present profits from investment activities and sources of their financing in farms supported from the structural EU funds. It has been stated that most of investments served faarm modernization and development. This can indicate that their main goal was an increase of...

Poland has favourable natural conditions for development of the ecological agriculture. The aim of this article is to display and evaluate the spatial differentiation of production of raw material for food products coming from organic farms as well as of processing of these products in Poland. A...

The aim of the paper was the recognize the main chances and the barriers of functioning of producer groups, based on the example of the Lubawa cooperative pig breeders producer group ‘Lub- Tucz’, located in the Lubawa commune. A group of pig breeders was surveyed. The survey was conducted in...