The problem of evaluation of Polish food processing industry in the light of general economic tendencies in period 2006-2010 was undertaken in the article. The main part presents an assessment of the financial crisis impact in the analyzed period. The findings are based on an analysis of changes...

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...

The article offers a territorial analysis of funds acquired by Polish agricultural holdings in the years 2004-2006 via direct payments and through participation in measures of the Rural Development Programme and the Sectoral Operational Programme ‘Restructuring and Modernisation of the Food...

Financial ratios in farms integrated in FADN system were analyzed in the paper. The farms were situated in the Mazowsze and Podlasie regions. A particular attention was paid to liquidity and debt ratios. The liquidity ratios achieved the highest value in small, average-small and average-big...

The article presents the economic performance and investment outlays recorded in the agricultural holdings participating in the Polish FADN. The aim of the paper is to evaluate and assess the differences in investment activity among the agricultural holdings of various types of farming. The...

The aim of this article is to determine the significance of the food industry in the national economy in the European Union countries. An analysis of the production resources, structure of entities, as well as analyses of production volume, gross value added and share in national economy were...

The work is focusing on selected effects of changes in sugar market in Poland after the integration with the EU. Sugar production in Poland between years 2003/4 and 2009/10 was reduced by about 15.3% and production limits by about 7.5%. Integration of Poland with the EU and implementation of the...

Four classification models of economic bankruptcy of farms based on panel data are presented in the article. The modelling techniques are linear discrimination function, pooled probit model, random effects probit model and artificial neural network. They give very similar quality of...

The article presents the main objectives of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2014 and assesses them from the point of view of Polish agriculture. It takes into account such issues as the level of the EU budget and its allocation for Poland, a new scheme of direct payments,...

The paper presents a comparison of prospective financing of environmental protection based on support from the European sources in the programming period 2007-2013 with financing in years 2004-2006. There are special chances of realization the state ecological policy by means of the Regional...