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...

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...

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...

The purpose of this paper is an attempt of showing the role of qualitative features of labour resources as a factor which diversifies the level of strawberry harvesting productivity. Such features as age and sex of pickers, total number of picking days, age of plantation and harvest date and...

The paper constitutes an attempt at modelling the joint distribution of crop plant yields and prices in Poland. The main objective of the paper was to examine the usefulness of the copula function for the task and the selection of suitable marginal distributions. The fit of a joint distribution...

The aim of the study was to analyze the changes in the Dutch floriculture in the years 2000-2011, which help in defining the future of Polish floriculture. The changes in land use in Dutch floriculture sector, as well as in particular branches have been studied. The total acreage, number of...

Issues of bioethanol from sugarcane produced in Brazil were presented, in particular production volume in the period 2009-2012 and forecast for 2013 year on the background of the largest economies in the world, and Poland. Brazil is the world's second largest producer of ethanol fuel after USA....

The paper presented a short review of research on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimates at the global level and in the selected countries. Moreover, own study on TFP in the Polish farms during 2004-2012 based on FADN data was shown. The TFP measures were calculated for crops, milk, pigs and...

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...