Productive and economic effectiveness of farms

At the beginning of the article the author makes an assumption that agrarian policies aiming at developing and transforming structures of agriculture must be in agreement with economic principles and cassations ruling that baranach of economy. Accordingly to the assumption made, all types of farms are subjected to the economic assessment throughout the [period of twenty years (1960 - 1980) of their activity in the respect of the dynamics of their developement and effectiveness of such factors of production as land, labor and productive capital. On the grounds of the statistical data the author can draw a conclusion that the developement of particular types of farms was not in keeping with their productive and economic effects. Supra economic factors exercised powerful effect on the developement. This resulted in taking no account of costs in decisionmaking in the scope of production and its organization. This phenomenon can be particularly seen in State farms and in cooperatives. In place of the efficient farms there were huge structures emerging lacking effectiveness in management and in production. Links of cooperation between scattered individual farms and extensively concentrated collective farms were broken. A vast productional potential was accumulated in collective farms and its reserves could not have been ulsed until now.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201