The article presents the agrarian structure of Polish agriculture and the influence of this structure on the activity of farms as deliverers of raw materials for food industry. It has been shown that the area changes in private farms in Poland have admittedly the right direction but the dynamics...

The article presents the state of organic farming in the enlarged European Union (EU). It is important to emphasise the growing role of this kind of farming. In the period of years 1985-2006 the number of organic farms in the EU-27 member states has grown over 34 times and their area nearly 70...