Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(4):199-202 | DOI: 10.17221/33/2010-AGRICECON

Purposefulness of more intensive supporting milk production in conditions of dispersed agriculture of southern Poland

Jerzy Cieślik, Elżbieta Badach, Andrzej Krasnodębski
University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow, Poland

A disadvantageous tendency of resigning from milk production by small and medium sized farms has been observed in the recent years in the provinces of Southern Poland. It results from the low profitability of milk production on these farms and therefore the difficulties in reaching the income parity. It leads to a decline in the bovine population not compensated by an increase in the yield per animal and it poses a serious hazard to protecting the natural resources which is the function dairy farms perform in this region. The problem is serious since in the analyzed region, milk is acquired from 75% of farms keeping herds of up to 10 cows. Moreover, grasslands constitute a notably high share in the arable land structure, and for maintaining them cow keeping is a crucial condition. Hitherto functioning system of EU payments proved insufficient; therefore the Polish government intends to provide an additional financial support for dairy farms. The authors intended to reason that despite the hardly important participation of the analyzed regions in total milk production in Poland, an additional support for small and medium sized dairy farms from the state budget is socially necessary, in the first place because of the additional functions fulfilled by these farms.

Keywords: milk production, income parity, natural resources, subsidies

Published: April 30, 2011  Show citation

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Cieślik J, Badach E, Krasnodębski A. Purposefulness of more intensive supporting milk production in conditions of dispersed agriculture of southern Poland. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2011;57(4):199-202. doi: 10.17221/33/2010-AGRICECON.
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