The aim of this article is to present the problems of cost competitiveness of Polish dairy farms and selected European countries. Comparisons were used to study IFCN and Agricultural Census 2010. As can be seen from the analysis, the majority of farms in Poland are uncompetitive in terms of cost...

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 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 aim of this paper is to assess the potential for production, economic and financial results of individual agricultural holdings in Wielkopolska and Śląsk FADN region when taking their economic size into consideration. The analysis shows that bigger holdings achieve definitely better...

With the increasing competition in the global markets of agri-food products permanently sustaining the competitive potential of the EU agri-food sector becomes more and more important. The aim of the paper is to assess the competitiveness of EU agri-food sector based on the results of...

Dairy production in Ukraine, as well as worldwide, is an important sector of the economy which ensures the food security of the country. The Ukrainian dairy sector has many unsolved systematic problems, foremost of which is the decrease in cow productivity and the number of cows. This directly...

The article presents changes in the structure of total agricultural holdings and in individual agricultural holdings with the area exceeding 1 ha in years 2002 and 2010. Those changes resulted from the increased concentration of land in agricultural holdings with over 20 ha of arable land. The...

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 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...