OWNERS OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL FARMS - TYPICAL FORMS OF NON-AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES LAUNCHED BY POLISH FARMERS

• Authors: Serega Z.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Work in agriculture requires specific and numerous qualifications but it does not require identical intensity of effort throughout the year. This work has its peak period, a period of a slow-down and standstill. This is the reason why members of family farms and village communities were always engaged in additional jobs. The latter became the source of earning an income in the post-enfranchisement period. At present employment outside agriculture encounters obstacles that have not been expected by farmers. However, the adjustment abilities of the rural population, shaped in the period of industrialization, have allowed it to work out a new model of multi-vocational life. Families owning farms are launching non-agricultural economic activities. Typical forms of such non-agricultural activities are closely connected with the economic system of villages and the resources of their natural environment. Non-agricultural enterprises established by families on their farms are linked by specific ties to their direct environment. Three forms of such ties are possible, namely: structural unification with the system of production of agricultural commodities; functional connection between non-agricultural economic activity and the resources of the natural environment as well as the economic needs of the rural community; and formal ties.

Keywords

EN

FAMILY FARM; FARM'S MULTI-VOCATIONAL CHARACTER; NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences; www.irwirpan.waw.pl
• Journal: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 3(128)Supp
• Pages: 95-107
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Serega Z.

• Z. Serega, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00541367