Sytuacja ekonomiczna gospodarstw mlecznych w województwie małopolskim

Based on 57 investigated individual dairy farms of Malopolska district 3 groups of farms with different scale of production were determined. The first included farms with 2-5 milk cows, the second 5-15 milk cows and the third 10-20 milk cows. The work efficiency of employees (FWU) was determined by net added value of production. In the farms of the highest scale of production that value was more than two and a half higher than in the farms from group one and two. Also the value of income was determined according to production groups. The profit for the farms from the first group was about 9.2 thousand PLN, the second – 9.9 thousand PLN and in the third group – the biggest scale of production, it was 24.9 thousand PLN.