Productivity of resources and investments at selected ecological farms

Land and labour resources indicate that Polish agriculture has extensive options of competing on the European market. However, structural realities, particularly the agrarian scattering and excessive labour resources in the agricultural industry, contribute to low productivity of Polish farming. Productivity improvement can be achieved through increasing sizes of agricultural establishments as well as production of organic (eco) products. The paper presents the productivity review of land, capital and labour resources as well as material investments in production of the output volume at 50 ecological farms situated in the territory of the Macro-Region of Southern Poland. The studied farms were engaged both in general and specialised plant and animal production. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.