The article deals with the popularity of the TV program Far from the city, which introduces townspeople who decided to move to the countryside. The host of the program visits people who have decided to change their lives and pursue their professional lives away from the city in various ways. Thanks to their original ideas for life, inhabited farms ...
Witold Staniewicz (1887–1966) is a scientist, politician and social activist born and living in Vilnius during the Second Polish Republic. He was a professor at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, its rector and vice-dean of the Faculty of Agriculture. Staniewicz’s scientific interests included: theory of agrarian policy and the importance of ...
The article discusses the difficult beginnings of economic development in Gubin’s villages in the first post-war years. The new inhabitants of these areas, who took former German farms, had to establish a network of economic connections in the district. Agriculture, which in 1939 was a small part of the economic life of the inhabitants, became the ...
A specific feature the most of the underdeveloped countries, referred to as Third World Countries after World War II, was their historically high dependence on agriculture and a high percentage of the population employed in agricultural and livestock production. In developed countries (Western European countries and Anglo-Saxon countries), the shar...
The article presents a historical outline and various aspects of the activity of the Centralne Towarzystwo Rolnicze in the Kingdom of Poland. The Society officially inaugurated its activity 11 III 1907 and, following the earlier farmers' associations, took action aimed at modernizing the agriculture and the rural areas in the existing political, so...
The article is an attempt to describe the economic history of the Lublin region perceived through the prism of agriculture in the late period of the Polish state and, above all, during the Austrian Partition (1795-1809). The issues discussed here, preceded by the introductory outline of a broader context, focus on matters related to the economic co...
Indywidualne gospodarstwa rolne (podobnie jak inne jednostki gospodarcze) muszą być efektywnie zarządzane. Aby zapewnić sobie przewagę konkurencyjną na rynku, muszą nie tylko sprawnie działać czy podejmować działania inwestycyjne - we współczesnej gospodarce coraz większe znaczenie dla rozwoju gospodarstw rolnych odgrywają innowacje. Rozprawa podej...
The article describes issues related to the availability, abstraction and consumption of water in agriculture. The significance of water for the sector is crucial. However, farmers do not put much attention to it and treat water as a free good without any value. Changes in availability, volume of abstraction and the water footprint point out that w...
Pomeranian Exhibition of Agriculture and Industry held in Grudziądz held from 26 VI–12 VII 1925, it was one of the largest exhibitions of Polish interwar period. Its purpose was to show the Polish economy on the newly reclaimed lands of Pomerania. The exhibition had a total of 56 facilities, 28 of which built the Trade Committee, and 28 private exh...
This article describes agrarian reforms of Josef II, the most outstanding reformer in the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century. He wanted to create a single, strong organism of state. He wanted Habsburg monarchy to be modern similarly to centralized Hohenzollern monarchy of Friedrich II. It was a very difficult task. Josef II had to strengthen cen...
