Organic farming – progress or regress?

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Henryk Runowski


Keywords : organic farming, conventional farming, effectiveness, economic goals, ecologic goals
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The paper aims to analyze the state of development of organic farming in the world including Europe and Poland. There were analyzed economic and ecological goals of organic farms. Based on conducted analyzes of organic farms in Great Britain, Austria and Germany there were presented incomes, costs and financial result in both analyzed systems. There were also described chances and limitations of organic farming. The paper argues that the organic farming will be a producer of food however for limited amount of consumers.

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Runowski, H. (2009). Organic farming – progress or regress?. Annals of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 96(4), 182–193. https://doi.org/10.22630/RNR.2009.96.4.81
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