Znaczenie dopłat w gospodarstwach ogrodniczych w krajach Unii Europejskiej według wielkości ekonomicznej

The goal of this article was to present the structure of horticultural farms in accordance to the FADN economic class sizes and the total amount of subsidies in different EU countries in years 2004-2011. The data came from FADN. The results show, that the most numerous group of the horticultural farms were farms reaching standard output between 8 to 25 thousand Euro. The least numerous group were farms with standard output above 500 thousand Euro. In years 2004-2011 there was a high increase of almost 90%, in the level of subsidies. The financial support varied among countries and farms of different economic sizes. The subsides ranged from about 500 Euro per farm (in Italy) to 35 thousand Euro per farm (in Finland). The Scandinavian horticultural farms received several dozen higher subsidies than horticultural farms in Italy, Portugal or Poland.