Tomasz Wojewodzic

Seeking Interrelations Between the Level of Social and Economic Development and the Indicators Of the Economic and Production Disagrarisation of Farms

Disagrarisation can be looked at from a broad perspective, when referred to the social and economic processes taking place in rural areas, or from a narrower perspective, when related to farms (as understood by the Polish law). In the latter case, production and economic aspects come first. The study attempted at measuring the interrelations between the level of social and economic development of a local administrative entity (county) and the indicators of the processes of the economic and production disagrari- sation of farms located therein (share of land with agriculture in poor condition; or- ganisational intensity of agriculture). It was found that the indicators of economic and production disagrarisation assumed high values both in the counties that achieved high scores for their level of social and economic development, and in those with low scores. However, the causes of the considerable advancement of disagrarisation differ between the two groups of counties. The factor that supports the continuation of production and helps in maintaining the importance of incomes earned from agriculture is, among oth- ers, the favourable natural conditions of agricultural production.