ABSTRACT. The main objective of the survey was to display the economic situation of farms specialising in milk production in Poland and Lithuania, the changes that followed their accession to the European Union, and to determine the developmental potential of these farms. The survey covered the years 2004-2008. Lithuanian farms had higher intensity of animal production and proved to be more competitive in terms of farm income, the level was higher by 29.8%. However, Polish farms had higher intensity of crop production and profitability of land (over 50%) and productive assets (by 84.3 percentage points). Proprietary structure of Polish and Lithuanian farms were not favorable, but in Poland the share of low mobility of fixed assets was greater, resulting in a much lower efficiency of capital (more than 2-fold). The presence of the two countries in the EU favorably influenced the development of dairy farms, and helped to improve their competitiveness.
KEYWORDS: milk, income, productivity, economic condition of farms, Poland, Lithuania.
Skarżyńska A.,. et al. 2013. The conditions of the development of dairy farms in Poland and Lithuania [Stalgienė, Aldona], Transformations in business and economics., 12(1(28)): 91-107. ISSN 1648-4460 [Central & Eastern European Academic Source nuo 2008 (EBSCO sąrašas), EconLit nuo 2002 EconLit with Full Text nuo 2007 (EBSCO sąrašas), IBSS nuo 2004, SCOPUS nuo 2006, Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) nuo 2006 (sąrašas), ISI Web of Science (& Master Journal List) 2006, Social Scisearch nuo 2006, Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition nuo 2006].
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