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The purpose of this article is to assess organisation and efficiency of farms in terms of production and economics, depending on the balance of soil organic matter and agricultural area of the farms. The study covered 1,281.9 thousand Polish individual farms with an area of at least 1 ha of agricultural land. The results indicated that the share of farms with a positive and negative balance of organic matter was similar, both in terms of farms’ number and the level of production factors involved and standard agricultural output. The results seem to be promising as they indicate positive – desired relationships between environmental and economic objectives at the farm level.
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The aim of the study is to present the changes in the number and social and demographic features of the population connected with farming, as well as to show the specificity and complexity of employment issues in individual farming, and the discussion of changes in relations within the scope of labour force in peasant farming and the influence of hired labour in family farm on the rural labour market. The years 2000-2005 were the period in which farming families limited their own labour effort, although the relations within the scope of labour in individual farms still have remarkably family nature. In general, one can observe small influence of employment possibilities in farms on easing imbalance on the rural labour market as in 2005 individual farming created permanent job possibilities for 30 thousand people and seasonal and temporary jobs for the group of app. 470 thousand people. At that time, the open unemployment rate in Polish farming families may be determined at 369 thousand and the hidden unemployment rate at app. 500 thousand people.
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This study raises the issue of divestments in agricultural holdings, which is now becoming topical. The processes of limiting or abandoning certain agricultural activities constitute an intrinsic element in evolution in agricultural holdings. However, in such turbulent circumstances, the dynamics of this phenomenon is gaining speed, which may reflect a decline in or the development of economic entities. This study attempts to estimate the scale and structure of production divestments in individual commercial farms. The theoretic considerations are supplemented with analysis results, taking into account the production type of the holding. The most numerous group out of the 6881 holdings surveyed was formed by the holdings which had abandoned potato production (1086 entities) and pig breeding (1177 entities). Most of the observed instances of retreating from agricultural activity should be viewed as measures to streamline the organisation of the holding: the production concentration (re-concentration), resulting from a specialisation and/or simplification in the activities conducted.
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Demographic development level, both in the rural population involved in private farming and in the economic development of private agricultural economy underwent changes during the transformation period in rural areas of the West Pomeranian region. The commune typology has been based on commune spatial layout, according to demographic development level of population involved in private farming and economic development level of private farms in 1996. This typology divides communes into various groups. There are communes with balanced demographic and economic development (i.e. such where a balanced degree of demographic and economic development occurs: favourable, average or unfavourable). Another group are communes where demographic development exceeds the economic one and inversely, there are communes where the economic development outdistances the demographic one. As a result of delimitation, it has been proved that in 1996 the type of balanced demographic and economic development was dominant in the communes of the West Pomeranian region. It has been noted that the high degree of farming population development most frequently coexists with a high degree of private farming development. Two factors are related to this fact: high quality of the production environment and close location to large important towns.
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The article presents the results of an analysis of the status quo and changes in employment in individual farms conducted on the basis of the National Agricultural Census 2010 and representative research: Farm Structure Survey 2005 and 2007. The analysis concerned employed persons working simultaneously on farms and outside of them, thus pluriactive persons. It turned out that the number of pluriactive persons in the examined period increased. Moreover, the number of individual farms pursuing non-agricultural activities increased, as well as the significance of income from non-agricultural activity in the total income of households of farmers.
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The paper describes the predicted effects for communal budgets of the introduction of an income tax for farms which would replace the present agricultural tax. Research conducted in the farms located in the Wielkopolska, Slask, Mazowsze and Podlasie regions, which participated in the FADN system, has indicated that the imposition of an income tax meant as the source of incomes of communes would be very beneficial for their budgets. The advantages would be far greater in the Mazowsze and Podlasie regions. If it is accepted that communal budgets will have the same share in the income tax paid by farms as in the income tax paid by natural persons (39.34%) then, on the whole, this solution would not be beneficial for them. This situation generally relates to the Wielkopolska and Slask regions because in the latter region the inflow of means from communal budgets was higher than the inflow of cash from the agricultural tax. Their earning power situation would be even more unfavourable if it was accepted that the proposed income tax should be equal to the corporate income tax (6.71%). The introduction of an income tax for farms would be advantageous to the state budget. In individual communes the advantages (or their absence) of the introduction of the income tax depend on the number of operating farms, their acreage, type of farming and the adopted rules of the communes' participation in incomes from this tax. For the farms that are not engaged in the production of goods for the market the introduction of a flat tax would be more suitable.
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