Intensity of the production organisation in organic and conventional dairy farms

• Main Authors: Urszula Malaga-Toboła, Sławomir Kocira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Life Sciences in Poznań 2013-03-01
• Series: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
• Subjects: ecology; conventional farms; milk; intensity of the organization production
• Online Access: http://www.jard.edu.pl/tom27/zeszyt1/art_14.pdf

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the intensity of the production organization between dairy farms conducting agricultural activity in organic and conventional production systems. Study groups of farms were located in the southern (fifteen organic farms), central and eastern part of Poland (fifteen conventional farms). The study was conducted in the form of a directed interview in the marketing year 2010/2011. Area, structure of land use and crop, livestock and the size of plant and animal in the production global and commodity were specified. The analysis showed a lot of differences between the two systems of production, from the area of farm and structure of land use and finally the production outputs. Basic statistical analysis was also conducted. It showed a significant negative correlation between the area of agricultural land and a positive correlation between the livestock and intensity of organisation of production. However, the correlation coefficients between the studied variables in the analysed farm groups differed from each other.