Changes in the relations and productivity of production factors in Polish farms according to the market activity
Bożena Karwat-Woźniak
Abstract: Production factors are used jointly in the manufacturing process. They usually strengthen their productivity and therefore, albeit to a certain extent, they are complementary. The mutual relations between production factors defined the agriculture, the amount of output and productivity. The changes in production factors’ relations resulted from the shifts noted in the group of farms. Therefore, this paper concentrates on the analysis of changes in resources of production factors and their mutual relationships, from the perspective of the entire Polish agriculture, and that of individual groups (types, categories) of agricultural holdings, according to their market activity (measured by the value of sold agricultural production).
The paper is based on the results of panel surveys conducted by the IAFE-NRI (mainly from the years 2000, 2005 and 2011). This surveys covered all agricultural holdings with more than 1 ha of agricultural land (UR), at the disposal of natural persons, located in the same 76 villages from different regions of the country. The villages had been selected purposely, so that the area of the surveyed holdings were proportional to the actual area structure of individual agricultural holdings in the country level. The surveyed entities constituted ca. 0.2% of the actual number of individual agricultural holdings. Research results showed the minor changes in the relations between agricultural production factors (input) and the level of their productivity. This favourable changes took place in the market oriented farms with high scale of agricultural output. As a result, in holdings where the scale of production ensured the level of income comparable with the other sectors of the economy (highly-commercial farms), the relations between production factors were similar to those observed in the EU agriculture.
The paper is based on the results of panel surveys conducted by the IAFE-NRI (mainly from the years 2000, 2005 and 2011). This surveys covered all agricultural holdings with more than 1 ha of agricultural land (UR), at the disposal of natural persons, located in the same 76 villages from different regions of the country. The villages had been selected purposely, so that the area of the surveyed holdings were proportional to the actual area structure of individual agricultural holdings in the country level. The surveyed entities constituted ca. 0.2% of the actual number of individual agricultural holdings. Research results showed the minor changes in the relations between agricultural production factors (input) and the level of their productivity. This favourable changes took place in the market oriented farms with high scale of agricultural output. As a result, in holdings where the scale of production ensured the level of income comparable with the other sectors of the economy (highly-commercial farms), the relations between production factors were similar to those observed in the EU agriculture.
Keywords: market activity; productivity; relations of production factors
Date published: 2018-02-02
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