The article presents the economic performance and investment outlays recorded in the agricultural holdings participating in the Polish FADN. The aim of the paper is to evaluate and assess the differences in investment activity among the agricultural holdings of various types of farming. The...

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 importance of evaluating different impacts of the EU accession has not decreased in the last decade. Some of the problems, such as the problems of competitiveness and effectiveness of the agricultural sector, or the delay in transformation of the payment scheme are still unsolved. The...

In recent years, the possibility of increasing production of legumes, whose area of cultivation has decreased, is being considered. It has been influenced by the yield variability which adversely affected the profitability of these plants cultivation. This paper attempts to assess the risk in...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

The influence of accession to the EU on the development of foreign trade in fruit, vegetables and their preserves in Poland is presented in the paper. The impact of larger exports and imports on the tendencies in production of fresh and processed horticultural products was also analysed as well...

The aim of this research was an attempt at indicating the Polish agriculture’s place in the EU-27 agriculture basing on the outputs realized, the inputs and the results obtained by farms. Data from the FADN database was used. It was the weighted averages per farm in each of the 27 EU member...

A survey concerned 41 dairy cooperatives in four years (2002-2005). This paper identifies and examines an impact of employment on profitability and financial safety of dairy cooperatives. The survey showed that employment positively influenced mainly the levels of return on sales, assets, own...

The problem of optimization of the term of planting greenhouse lettuce is considered. The main aim was maximization of a profit function (economic surplus). Profits from lettuce production and sale in dependence of the term of planting were observed. The problem consists is in estimation of the...