The aim of this paper is to present the abuses and irregularities which were identified in agriculture, processing industry and trade of ecological products in the Czech Republic. The analysis shows that the most common are the irregularities in labelling the products. Other often occurring...

Effects of the climate change appear in several fields of the economy and agriculture can be considered as one of the most affected among them. In a country, where almost 10% of the total GDP is produced by the agricultural sector and more than 30% of the total work force is employed in this...

Legal requirements regarding registration of plant protection products have undergone numerous changes in years 2001-2009. The main reason of the changes was the accession to the European Union. The most important from the point of view of environmental protection was the rule introduced in...

The paper presents the brief information, based on literature, about the organic production of fruits in the world and in Poland. In order to assess the situation on the organic fruit market comparative analysis of the prices of apples and strawberries were presented. In the study the prices of...

The article performed the analysis of organic farms linkage to market and their marketability. The possibility assessment of organic farming production system developing in Poland in aspect of worldwide development tendencies and RDP 2014-2020 was also conducted. Analysis was conducted using CSO...

Developmental tendencies of the organic farming in Poland in years to 2003-2007 were presented. Benefits from this way of farm management as an alternative to the conventional farming were described. Changes of the number of organic producers, the acreage of the ecological agricultural lands and...

In the research there were undertaken four activities which were introduced in priority axis RADP 2007-2013. The aim of research was analysis of execution of tasks estimated in the program against number and level of the European funds use allocated for that purpose. The estimation shows that...

Multifunctional rural areas, multifunctional agriculture and multifunctional farms deliver many various marketable and non-marketable goods for society (including public goods). In recent years, discussion of the issue of public goods provided by rural areas, agriculture and farms became...

Integration with the European Union allowed the restructuring of the Polish fishing sector on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to EU funding, the fishing fleet was reduced and partly modernized. No new fishing vessel was entered into operation. The restructuring of the fishing fleet was carried...

Biodiversity conservation is an important element of EU environmental policy and it influences certain instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy (agri-environmental programmes, cross–compliance rules, organic farming support). These play an increasingly important role in this policy....