Gospodarstwa rolne w Polsce jako ogniwo logistycznego łańcucha dostaw żywności
Polish farms as o link of the logistic chain of food providers

Summary/Abstract: The article presents agrarian structure of Polish agriculture and the influence of this structure on the activity of farms as deliverers of raw materials for food industry. In the article has been shown that the area changes of private farms in Poland have admittedly the right direction but the dynamic of those changes is to slow. In 1998–2008 the number of private farms with the agriculture area above 1 hectare decreased by about 16 percent. The agrarian structure is by small farms dominated. In 2007 the part of private farms with area between 1 and 5 hectare amounted 57,4 percent of all private farms with area above 1 hectare. However farms with area above 15 hectare determined in 2007 only 11 percent of analyzed group of farms. The attention also has been paid on the great variety of economic activity of farms between area groups. Along with the growth of the area the tendency of the farms increased to the vertical and horizontal concentration in delivery chain. In 2005 43,7 percent of farms with area above 15 hectare were members of producer’s groups. However this index for area group between 1 and 5 hectare amounted 1,3 percent. Therefore the existing agrarian structure of Polish agriculture hinders the improvement of organization level in food delivery chain.

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