Dywersyfikacja jako proces dostosowawczy gospodarstw województwa małopolskiego

Market economy, unemployment, increase of input costs, small scale of agricultural production –these are some of many important reason which caused that farmer families have been forced to look for additional, non-agricultural, out of farm sources of income. Diversification, especially to non-agricultural activities, is for many farms a chance to survive. The survey concerned farms which have chosen agritourism activities as a source of additional income. The main reason for such a decision was the problem with finding non-farm jobs and difficulties with undertaking non-agricultural activities on farms (costs, taxes) other than agritourism. Main reasons favouring agritourism were free rooms on farms, surplus of labour force, relatively low costs of starting agritourism. Investigated farms evaluated average share of income generated by agritourism activities at 27% of total income. Almost all farms planned to continue and develop their agritourism activities to increase the share of income generated by that activity.