As many as 50 farmers, inhabitants of Dziemiany commune who were involved in trainings organized by Pomorski Centre of Agricultural Extension in Lubań (PODR), took part in surveys conducted in February 2016. Also, an interview was carried out with an agricultural-community counselor of PODR in Lubań. In the opinion of most respondents the main profits from implementation of environment protection program included: obtainment of financial means for the farm development and protection of the environment. Too big bureaucracy and changes in regulations while implementing programs as well as difficulties with qualification for the program were indicated as the biggest setbacks. The majority of respondents were of the opinion that the programs had a positive influence on the environment, however, not as much as they should. Use of the packages brought real profits, according to most farmers, or they merely compensated their own costs connected with adjustment to a given program. According to the surveyed agricultural-community counselor, farmers treated the programs as an additional source of income. Comparing current financing with the previous one it was found that the terms proposed to farmers become less profitable though were characterized by higher requirements. It resulted in reduction in the number of farmers interested in implementation of these programs. Therefore, many of those who participated in PROW 2007-2013, did not decide to take part in PROW 2014-2020.
This paper is devoted for agricultural producers groups: its roots, formation and financing from the EU budget. There is a huge analysis of the groups functioning in Poland, especially in podlasie district. The authoresses present main problems connected with groups functioning and analyze their origins. The examination is based on questionnaire studies and their description. The main aim of this thesis is to present this institution and main barriers of their development in Poland.
Ukraine has great possibilities for developing agricultural production, which it owes largely to favorable natural conditions, including fertile, predominantly black, soils, and climate conducive to farming in most of its regions. At present, however, the Ukrainian economy and, especially, agriculture are in the period of emerging from a deep and protracted crisis connected with problems posed by the implementation of the process of systemic transformation and reconstruction of Ukraine's statehood. The level of agricultural production - especially of animal production, is still lower than it was before the start of systemic transformation. Systemic changes in agriculture have not produced the expected results. Huge transfers of arable land from collective to private farms have significantly lowered its productivity. The level of food consumption in Ukraine is very low, far lower than the consumption's rational norms. However, in recent years – especially in the years of bumper crops, Ukraine has become a large exporter of grain, oil plants and oil, which suggests that despite the continuing shortage of capital the country is slowly coming out of the deep crisis. In this context it is important to ask whether Ukrainian agriculture is able to achieve shortly a significant growth in production and to become a major exporter of food and agricultural products. An answer to this question is also important from the point of view of development possibilities of Polish agriculture.
The article deals with changes of relations between the small town of Nové Dvory near Kutná Hora and the surrounding rural landscape. Nové Dvory is an example of a serf town, an administrative and eco-nomic centre of the estate which has always been closely linked with its economic background. The purpose of the article was to describe the process which was typical of a number of rural villages in Bohemia and Moravia.
Regulations concerning public finance are very important in Polish legislation. It is particularly due to the economic crisis which may cause the loss of liquidity and even insolvency of financial institutions. It forces the state to look for numerous cost reductions. Support instruments have been introduced for entrepreneurs in the environment of economic slowdown caused by global crisis. Numerous changes have been made in the area of taxes, financing environmental protection activities, and agriculture. The rule that transport of people is based on public mass transport subordinated to competitive market rules has been introduced.
The purpose of this article was to present the position of the Polish agriculture on the background of the European Union according to the production and family farm income in the years 2005-2013. Firstly, the situation of Polish agriculture was described, then the importance of the agricultural sector to the economies of EU countries was showed. At the end, on the basis of rankings, the position of the Polish agricultural farms in the EU according to the value of their total production, family farm income and family farm income minus the subsidies were set out. It turned out that in 2013 Poland takes up 23-rd, 23-rd and 15th place according to these data.
The aim of this article is to identify risk factors in terms of holistic activities occurring in the agricultural enterprises and to identify determinants defining the specificity of these factors. As a result of this research in agricultural enterprises the list of selected potential risk factors and specified the main criteria for determining their specificity are defined.
The aim of the study was to produce quantitative estimates of greenhouse gas emissions (CH4, N2O and CO2) from agriculture and their spatial allocation within the country. The main source material for the study was the GUS electronic database (2009-2001). To calculate emissions original EMKAL1 program was used. The calculation algorithms in the program were based on the IPCC methodology. The mean, annual greenhouse gas emission from agriculture was 27.7 mln t CO2 eq. Emission originated in animal production was markedly higher (63,3%) than in plant production (36,7%). The biggest emitter was the cattle husbandry (81.1%), while pig production constituted only 13.9%, and the other animal species – 5.0%. Emission showed a high spatial variability. The highest total emission occurred in Podlaskie Voivodship, followed by Kujawsko-pomorskie, Wielkopolskie and Łódzkie Voivodships, while the lowest emission in Zachodnio-pomorskie and Podkarpackie Voivodships. Spatial distribution of emission is linked to a stocking rate and a structure as well as directions of animal and plant production, together with their intensity. Study results indicate the direction towards mitigation measures in agriculture to achieve emission reduction.
The author discusses the definitions and meaning of two notions - human factor and social capital. Making a reference to the hitherto studies and analyses the author formulates a thesis that the role of these factors is gaining in significance in step with the general socio-economic development. Emphasis is laid in the article on the assessment of the present state and future role of these factors in the development of agriculture and rural areas in Poland. Attention is drawn to the main shortcomings and needs relating to quality improvement and increased influence of the discussed factors in the process of integration. In the conclusion of his article the author states that a considerable inflow of financial means as well as structural and administrative changes will not produce full possible advantages unless a radical improvement is achieved in the sphere of quality and creative participation of individuals and social capital.
The complex of the Polish society's views on the subject of agriculture is marked by ideology. The place that rural areas, agriculture and persons working in agriculture occupy in social awareness is far more important than the role that agriculture plays in the generation of GDP or in the incomes of farmers' families. In the light of nation-wide representative surveys, views concerning agriculture are incoherent, naive and often false. On one hand, these views reflect the feeling that harm was done to agriculture and farmers in the more and less distant past and is being done also in the present situation and, on the other hand, they reflect the tendency to overestimate the role of agriculture, the conditions existing in agriculture (such as the quality of soils and qualifications of farmers) and the results achieved in agriculture (high labour productivity, ecological products). They also reflect the prevalent conviction that agriculture may be the locomotive of Poland's economic development. The ideologically-marked and emotional approach of the Polish people to the problems of agriculture can be attributed to many factors: the rural roots of the Polish society, the fact that agriculture has become a 'dressing for the wounds' of Polish transformation, which eases unemployment and poverty, and to the information campaign preceding the referendum on accession to the EU, which concentrated chiefly on agriculture. The favourable changes in the picture of Polish agriculture have occurred also under the influence of its environmental, social and cultural functions.
For some time, the focus of the empirical analysis has been oriented towards sectors linked to the so-called New Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). Nevertheless, the agriculture will always be one of the important sectors in each national economy. It is also a sector that underwent many extensive structural changes in the last two decades. The aim of our paper is to look in closer details on various indicators for this sector, notably its current position, its economic linkages to other domestic or foreign industries or generated effects on employment or value added. Our analysis is based on the input-output methodology. The results confirm overall weakening of the domestic linkages, especially on the demand side, and strengthening of the import flows. Also from a supply side point of view, the importance of agriculture as a supplier to other sectors is declining. The agricultural sector has also been losing strength in job creation. However, in terms of value added and gross product value indicators, our results confirm the important role of agriculture in the Slovak economy.
Professional knowledge management becomes nowadays a key factor of successful running a farm business. The following article focuses on ways of gathering professional knowledge by modern farmers and its sources as well as on the ways of this knowledge functioning in agriculture. The author concentrates on the ineffectiveness of farmer trainings, collective and local character of agricultural knowledge as well as discusses farmers' traditionalism in their certain activities. The paper is based on the material gathered by the author during her long-lasting ethnographic research conducted from 2004 to 2007 in villages of Zambrów county.
The article discusses the vision of rural community and rural areas as presented in the programs of political parities during parliamentary elections in Poland since 1989. The author analyzes electoral programs of the parties that won seats in the Sejm (Lower House) in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2011, pointing to issues emphasized by individual parties and to actions proposed by them. In the conclusion of the article the author puts a question whether political parties truly represent the interests of the Polish countryside and try to react to the problems of the inhabitants of rural areas.
The article presents the results of research on barriers in the management of traditional farms. At the same time attention was paid to the fact that the barriers in the management of farms, may vary depending on the type and forms of agricultural businesses. The study was conducted on a sample of 210 farms with traditional management system in the Lodz region broken down into its sub-regions. It also provides general information about to be inspected farms in terms of their size, time of operation, age of farmers and the industry in which the farm operates. There are six key barriers faced by farmers surveyed in the way of effective implementation of management processes. Among these barriers, with varying levels of validity, there is a lack of access to skilled units of counseling, resistance / lack of willingness to act on the part of cooperating insufficient funding, lack of support from local authorities, lack of adequate knowledge of management methods and techniques and lack of education.
The objective of the study was to assess the economics effects of the dairy policy reform sanctioned by CAP Health Check on the agricultural market in Poland. The paper presents a theoretical study of the production control program as well as a model based quantitative analysis of the implications of the reform on the agricultural markets. The partial equilibrium model AGMEMOD was used for simulation. The results obtained indicate that the expansion and subsequently the elimination of milk quota system lead to the growth of milk production and consumption in Poland which confirms the hypothesis derived from theoretical study. As a consequence, the growth of the production of most of dairy products and the decrease of their prices is expected. As the growth of dairy consumption is smaller than the growth of milk production the increase of self-sufficiency in the dairy market is predicted. The comparison of the scale of price adjustment resulting from the dairy reform to the market price changes observed recently leads to the conclusion that global market factors will probably be more important for the future development of milk production and prices in Poland than the milk quota abolition. Nevertheless, the reform constitutes a significant change in business conditions for producers and consumers of milk and dairy products. As a consequence, milk production will become more market based, as far as market prices, production costs and milk yields are concerned. Simulation results from the AGMEMOD model confirm the opinion brought by other authors that the abolition of milk quotas will lead to the decline of dairy farmer income. The main beneficiaries of the reform would become the consumers who could take advantage of the decline in prices of the dairy products.
The objective of the study is to characterize the Slovak community in the northern Argentine province of Chaco, which was formed between 1923 and 1935 in the town of Saenz Peña and its surroundings. Approximately three-quarters of the Slovak immigrants in Chaco came from Slovak minorities in Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, which were established there during the 18th-19th centuries. The different natural, economic, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural conditions in the Chaco province caused discontinuous trends to become dominant in the ethno-cultural development of the Slovak colonists. Their consequence was the emergence of the Argentinian variety of the Slovak dialect. There was also an economic transition from the family subsistence farming to farming whose production was dictated by the demands of the market.
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.
The essence and types of effectiveness were presented in the article. The author focused first of all on the economic effectiveness and distinguished its micro and macro-economic and social levels. The complicated character of measuring the elements of the effectiveness has been pointed out. The essence of ecological effectiveness has been presented as well. After having defined the above types of the effectiveness, the author discussed problems related to relationship between effectiveness and competitiveness, multi-functionality of agriculture and its sustainable development.
The present paper discusses the processes of servitisation of modern economies. Presented is the nature of the process, its theoretical underpinnings, and the basic aspects of the relation between servitisation and optimalisation of economic structure, as well as the optimum relationship among particular sectors of the economy. The author stresses that servitisation should not happen to the detriment of the other economic sectors.
In the globalized world, multinational corporations deepen the market power imbalances in agro-food chains. Markets do not repay the production costs of farm producers. Economic pressures on the growth of harvests and on maximization of returns on investments reduce the sustainability of agricultural lands and their ecosystems. Based on the official monthly statistical data of the Czech Statistical Office in period 1991-2008 and on data from other countries, the paper shows the growing inequalities on food markets, identifies their drivers and puts forward suggestions leading to the re-evaluation of the common agricultural policy (CAP) and to the solution of the financial and economic crisis.
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