The paper aims, above all, at assessment of the effects of allocating straw surplus from the Polish agriculture to energy purposes or as a source of additional organic matter in the soil. Consequently, the authors discuss the issue of significance of straw as an alternative energy source and...

The paper presents the level of competitiveness of the Polish dairy farms at the background of farms from the selected European Union countries. The selection was not random. The research covered farms from the following countries: Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Denmark, the...

The paper presents the situation of the Polish specialist pig holdings at the backdrop of similar holdings in Hungary, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. In order to study their development abilities, the following indices underwent a comprehensive assessment: productivity, profitability,...

The paper presents an assessment of organisation and economics of Polish crop farms, and their competitiveness has been defined against analogous farms from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. The assessment of researched farms was made on the basis of the Polish FADN and...

The paper presents the situation of farms located in areas exposed to droughts, emphasising the situation of those having poor quality soils. The research covered 296 farms keeping uninterrupted accounts under the Polish FADN over the period of 2006-2013, in the area of 96 gminas especially...

The paper presents the role and importance of land lease in structural changes in agriculture and its relations to efficiency of farming. It was demonstrated that land lease was a more efficient and cheaper method of increasing farm area (production scale) than land purchase. Research was held...

The purpose is to determine the scope for improvement of the functioning of Polish farms with cattle production (dairy and non-dairy cattle breeding) in comparison to similar holdings in selected countries

It is the first of a series of five publications devoted to operation of national agricultural holdings in the conditions of climate change and expected change in the agricultural policy that can take place in 2021 and its further implementation in the next years. Chapters: Households engaged in...