Przyczyny niskiej efektywności gospodarstw rolniczych

The purpose of this paper is to indicate the reasons of low effectiveness in agricultural holdings. The main problems over unsatisfactory efficiency are connected with macroeconomic policy towards an agricultural sector, long-term returning on inputs used in farm production, burdening of small family farms - which constitute base for Polish agrarian system - with costs of entire agriculture adjustment into market economy as well as an estimation of farm family work value according to parity standard. In these conditions about 90 per cent of agricultural holdings cannot afford the fixed capital formation level that would accelerate the process of restructuring and modernisation of farms. An improvement of efficiency in agriculture requires widespreading of free market in agricultural products over market of food products supplied to consumers. This can be reached at first due to horizontal integration of agricultural holdings and then by vertical one.