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Agricultural Enterprises in Poland

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The chapter aims to present key characteristics of Polish agriculture and provide an overview of managerial challenges faced by agricultural enterprises, in particular farms, in Poland. The agricultural sector in Poland is relatively more important than in the whole European Union, which is reflected in its shares in the GDP and employment. The area structure of farms continues to be very fragmented in spite of some recent consolidation processes. The vast majority of agricultural enterprises are family farms. As far as the market performance of Polish farms is concerned, there are (too) many that sell nothing or almost nothing. Agricultural labour productivity is one of the lowest in the European Union.

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    The output is the sum of plant and animal products obtained during a year in a given farm. Its primary source is crop production , animal production and income from mechanisation services , but also processing . The output reflects the actual size of the agricultural production. It is therefore a measure that makes it possible to determine the production orientation of an enterprise.

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    Calculated by means of the cumulative rate of increase in the price of the output and commercial agricultural production.

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Bryła, P. (2018). Agricultural Enterprises in Poland. In: Bryła, P. (eds) Managing Agricultural Enterprises. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59891-8_1

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