The purpose of the research was to analyse functioning of the fresh fruit market in Poland on the example of Grójec region, which is the main area of fruit production in the country, especially in the case of apple. The collected data showed that the sale of fresh fruit through intermediaries...

The presented conception of multifunctional agriculture is a wider view of the process of creating and dividing the economic surplus in farming sector. It is a balanced approach which includes various aspects of creating the advantages for the community. The notion of agricultural...

The aim of the article was to present the premises and evolution of protectionism in agricultural trade and to show the changes in significance of tariff and non-tariff barriers of intervention for the trade in agricultural products. The abolition of customs duties entails an increase in the...

The paper presents an evaluation of the structural pensions programme influence on agrarian changes in Poland. The research took advantage of not published data from Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture which were compared to results of agricultural census from 2002 and...

The article deals with the issues of direct farm payments scheme aimed at an equalization of their level between Polish producers and those in the EU-12 or EU-15 countries. Such politically based view has been recently propagated in Poland. An analytical, theoretical and empirical approach is...

The purpose of the article was comparing diverse resources of production factors in farming and displaying relations between them, as well as the effectiveness of their exploitation in agricultural regions of the European Union (EU-25). An average arable farm was analyzed in 122 regions,...

The purpose of this study is an attempt to show the scope of the differentiating factors influencing the level of farm support measures in the Common Agricultural Policy. Subject to detailed analysis are direct payments and area payments for less-favored areas (LFA). Their size was considered in...