THE NEED TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF A 'FARM' * AND THE RELATED RIGHTS AND DUTIES

• Authors: Jozwiak W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The tendency to use every piece of arable land prevailing in Poland in the result of a definite agricultural policy adopted after the Second World War and pursued until the end of the 1980s left Poles convinced that every farm engages in production. The ownership of a farm began to be understood as the use of a farm. This is reflected in the formulation contained in one of the Polish legal acts which states that it should be surmised (without the need of documenting the fact) that 'the owner of land or the tenant, the payer of the agricultural tax or the tax on incomes from special sectors carry out agricultural activity'. The situation began to change in the early 1990s when the first farms appeared that did not engage in agricultural production. This meant that these farms did not have a holder. The notion 'farm holder' is commonly used in the literature and legal acts of West European countries, which indicates that it is useful in the contemporary conditions. Since the farm holder does not necessarily have to be the farm's owner its seems purposeful to examine the definitions 'farm' and 'farm holder' in the light of the notion 'farm owner'. The triad of these notions constitutes the subject of an analysis presented in this text. The author refers in the analysis to definitions applied in the Polish legal acts, especially in the Civil Code. *The definition 'farm conducting agricultural activity' seems more accurate since such farms most often engage in agricultural production, whereas the definition 'farm' should be reserved for entities whose incomes come from the cultivation of the soil exclusively.

Keywords

EN

FARM; FARM HOLDER; FARM OWNER

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences; www.irwirpan.waw.pl
• Journal: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 2(127)
• Pages: 54-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jozwiak W.

• W. Jozwiak, Instytut Ekonomiki Rolnictwa i Gospodarki Zywnosciowej, ul. Swietokrzyska 20, 00-002 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00541361