THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN SELECTEDEUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

Abstract

The objective of the study was to compare the productivity of horticultural farms in Poland and selected EU countrieswith the highest horticultural production, ie France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Italy. The general characteristicsof horticultural farms, the productivity of the basic factors of horticultural production and the production profitability havebeen analized. It has been shown that Polish horticultural farms are characterized by several or even a dozen times lowerlevel of productivity of land, capital and labor than in other EU countries.

Keywords

• crops productivity
• horticultural crops
• FADN agricultural accounting