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 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...

Agricultural producers’ income, and political and economic rent. Substitution between economic and political rent. Empirical illustration of formation of the substitution of both rents. Political rent and investment of agricultural producers. Empirical illustration of the relationship between...