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In 1996-2002 Polish farms continued adjustment processes inaugurated at the turn of 1989 together with the change of socio-economic system in Poland. A relatively large group of farms proved unable to cope in the new conditions. Some of these farms were liquidated, some limited their activities to the production of food for the needs of their owners exclusively, whereas others abandoned agricultural production altogether, with their owners looking for other sources of livelihood. On the other hand, there also were farms that continued to enlarge their acreage and modernise their production potential despite the difficult conditions of operation. In 2002, only 72% of all Polish farms were delivering their goods to the market. In comparison with 1996 the number o such farms diminished by nine percentage points. The most important reasons for this decline were insufficient managerial skills of agricultural producers and unfavourable natural conditions, mainly the poor quality of soil. The same factors will most probably continue to determine the condition of Polish farms after May 1, 2004, which may mean that only a part of the farms will be able to avail themselves of the budget resources offered within the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. Thus, phenomena similar to those observable in 1996-2002 can be expected to occur in the Polish agriculture also in 2004-2006. The number of farms will be declining and their diversification will be progressing. A part of the farms (500 000-800 000) will certainly manage to find their place in the division of labour that will occur in the integrated Europe.
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This paper deals with the estimation of a random coefficient model. The virtue of this approach is that it considers farm heterogeneity, which conventional SFA models do not. When the model is applied to Polish farms, the results indicate that the conventional random and fixed effect models overestimate the inefficiency score. In addition, the reasons for inefficiency are analyzed. It is shown that despite the fragmentation of the Polish agriculture, there is no evidence for scale inefficiency. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on farms.
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The article indicates the solutions which improve the competitiveness of Polish agriculture, through the increase of the share of farms with the potential for development. It was assumed that the growth should be achieved by a directed support of investment activities of farmers, provided in draft regulations of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development for the 2014-2020 perspective. To increase the efficiency of support, the article presents the way of funds distribution for the purpose of the investment growth. The method presented limits the scope of the support. It will be limited to the farms which achieve good economic results and are interested in investing, yet lack funds to do so. Farms with too small scale of production and those which have adequate financing of investments should be excluded from the scheme. Support criteria for agricultural farms are also listed.
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The article presents the findings on the effectiveness and competitiveness of Polish crop-oriented farms in comparison with corresponding farms in Hungary and Germany. The basis for the study was crop-oriented farms: those producing cereal and those producing other crops, under the FADN system between 2006 and 2008 by economic size units 2-4; 4-8; 8-16; 16-40; 40-100, and above 100 ESU. German farms were represented by units over 16 ESU. Polish and Hungarian holdings were similar in size and markedly larger than those in Germany, where a higher level of production intensification was observed, along with greater land productivity, measured in crop volume and production value per 1 ha of arable land, and higher work efficiency with lower asset productivity and lower management income at the same time. According to the cumulative evaluation index Polish cereal farms classified 4-100 ESU proved competitive in relation to the equivalent farms in other EU Member States.
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