ECONOMIC SITUATION OF FARMS IN POLAND ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FADN SAMPLE IN 2018-2022

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to assess the economic situation of FADN farms, 2018-2022. The assessment was made in agricultural types such as field crops, horticultural crops, permanent crops, dairy cows, livestock, pigs, poultry, mixed. The period under study is characterized by an increase in the price of agricultural inputs. It turns out that FADN farms, despite this, did not record a reduction in their nominal income between 2018 and 2022. Poultry farms fared best in this regard. Nominal incomes above parity were achieved by farms classified as agricultural types: horticultural crops, dairy cows and pigs. Parity income was not achieved by FADN farms engaged in: field crops, grassland animals and mixed farming. The highest economic efficiency, in the surveyed years 2018-2022, was characterized by poultry farms, as evidenced by the almost 77% relationship between operating inflows and operating outflows. Pig farms achieved this type of relationship, in the years under study, at almost 70%. Equally high economic efficiency was obtained by horticultural farms, among which the analogous relation in the years under study was almost 64%. Relatively the weakest economic efficiency was achieved by farms engaged in permanent crops, the ratio of payments to operating disbursements, in this case, was about 45%.