Organizacja i wyniki ekonomiczne gospodarstw dzierżawionych przez spółki pracowników w woj. bydgoskim

Leasing or renting is the most common form of managing the agricultural real estate of farmer state owned farms overtaken by State Treasury Agency for Property in Agriculture into its stocks. Within the territory under Bydgoszcz voivodship administration employees partnership companies have concluded 75 agreements and rent totally 71,304 hectares of land. The aim of the study was to examine the organisation and economic performance of selected employees partnership companies. The research was based on empirical material derived from representative sample covering 4 agricultural holdings. All of them are keeping books according to new Accountancy Law requirements. They deal both with crop and animal production. Posts of president in all investigated companies are occupied by persons who previously - for at least ten years - were directors of enterprises of different ownership and organisation structures, which at present comprise economic units under consideration. Paper presents findings based on qualitative interviews with presidents of the companies. The required data was extracted from inquires (questionnaires). Since leasing contracts were settled the examined holdings have been generating profits, so they did in 1997. According to organised farm units which rent farmland from the Agency, appropriate animal and crop production structure was achieved by them and any changes in this field are not predicted. Finally, presidents of the companies point at systematically worsening relations between output-input prices in agriculture, they are also anxious about foreseen increase in workforce wages. On the contrary, they are not afraid milk quality requirements set by the European Union.