DETERMINANTY ZRÓŻNICOWANIA PRODUKCJI MLEKA W MAKROREGIONACH UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ
DETERMINANTS OF MILK PRODUCTION DIVERSITY IN THE MACROREGIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to distinguish economic determinants of milk production in clusters of FADN regions withfarms similar to each other in terms of total utilized agricultural area, number of milk cows and annualmilk yield in the light of selected taxonomic methods, i.e. cluster and factor analysis. Observed by theanalysis of standard deviations and Gini coefficients, increasing diversity of the majority of characteristicsof FADN dairy farms (in 2011 relative to 2004) led to think that production in farms similar to each otherin terms of the number of dairy cows, the amount of utilized agricultural area and an annual milk yield canbe conditioned by similar determinants, which may differ depending on the membership in a particulargroup. Classification of groups of regions with similar dairy farms was made using cluster analysis, andthe diversification of production determinants was illustrated on the basis of factor analysis in the distinguishedclusters. In order to determine the variability distinguished determinants analysis was performedfor two research periods (years 2011 and 2013).

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