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Production potential and organization of fully organic farms, compared to organic farms with co-existing conventional and conventional production in 2019–2021
| Description | Communes with natural conditions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | Favourable | |||||
| Farms | ||||||
| ecological | ecological with co-existing conventional production | conventional | ecological | ecological with co-existing conventional production | conventional | |
| Total labour input (AWU/100 ha of UAA) | 9.36 | 8.61 | 8.71 | 12.78 | 9.57 | 7.34 |
| Share of own work (%) | 94 | 93 | 96 | 88 | 92 | 95 |
| Share of rented land (%) | 17 | 30 | 24 | 20 | 32 | 28 |
| Value of assets (PLN thousand/ha) | 38.34 | 39.66 | 43.28 | 47.45 | 38.41 | 41.65 |
| Asset value (PLN thousand/AWU) | 671.03 | 706.62 | 739.42 | 610.54 | 901.74 | 1003.26 |
| Animal density (SD/100 UAA) | 46.84 | 51.84 | 86.71 | 61.65 | 22.31 | 49.83 |
Costs, production and economic outputs of fully organic farms, compared to farms with co-existing conventional production and fully conventional farms
| Description | Communes with natural conditions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | Favourable | |||||
| Farms | ||||||
| fully ecological | ecological with co-existing conventional production | conventional | fully ecological | ecological with co-existing conventional production | conventional | |
| Total costs (PLN thousand/ha), including: | 4.5 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| - Direct costs (PLN thousand/ha) | 1.6 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.5 |
| - Costs of external factors (PLN thousand/ha) | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.33 | 0.48 | 0.82 | 0.30 |
| Wheat yield (dt/ha) | 41.8 | 33.2 | 46.8 | 49.1 | 42.3 | 56.6 |
| Land productivity (PLN thousand/ha) | 5.09 | 3.93 | 7.22 | 5.56 | 7.06 | 7.11 |
| Income from a family farm (PLN thousand/farm) | 77.62 | 65.16 | 92.10 | 100.23 | 95.25 | 134.52 |
| Share of subsidies in farm income (%) | 89.8 | 96.1 | 53.5 | 67.1 | 57.5 | 44.0 |
Selected features of organic farming and organic farming with co-existing conventional production in communes with diversified natural management conditions in 2022
| Description | Natural conditions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | Favourable | |||
| Types of farms | ||||
| Ecological | Ecological with co-existing conventional production | Ecological | Ecological with co-existing conventional production | |
| Number of farms (thousands) | 9768 | 4690 | 3526 | 1225 |
| Total UAA on organic farms (thousand ha) | 243.2 | 181.4 | 81.2 | 71.9 |
| Area of organic UAA on organic farms (thousand ha) | 243.2 | 103.7 | 81.2 | 29.1 |
The value of farms’ S-W index and the share of structure-forming plants in their crop mix, by agricultural production system
| Farms | Communes with natural conditions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | Favourable | |||
| S-W index (points) | Share of structure-forming plants in arable land (%) | S-W index (points) | Share of structure-forming plants in arable land (%) | |
| Fully ecological | 1.30 | 13.6 | 1.30 | 12.3 |
| Ecological with co-existing conventional production | 1.50 | 10.5 | 1.70 | 10.4 |
| With only conventional production | 1.51 | 5.4 | 1.59 | 4.2 |
Farms surveyed by FADN from 2019–2021, organised by natural farming conditions and agricultural production system
| Farms | Natural conditions | |
|---|---|---|
| difficult | favourable | |
| Fully ecological | 225 | 47 |
| Ecological with conventional production | 100 | 31 |
| With only conventional production | 977 | 261 |