Koniunktura w rolnictwie

Since 1992 the Research Institute of Economic Development of the Warsaw School of Economics has conducted business surveys in Poland, focusing on agriculture sector. The surveyed farnis are larger than the average farms in the country. Their owners are younger and better prepared for the agricultural profession. The surveyed group (approximately 1500) of farms constitutes an intellectual and financial vanguard of all farms in Poland. The generał business indicators (constructed from cash receipts and confidence indicators) showed that there were three periods as regard the economic situation of agricultural farms in the 90s. first - improvement sińce 1993 up till 1996/97, after a period of deep deterioration of income in the years 1990-1992 ; second - radical deterioration sińce 1996/97 until 1998/99; third - gradual improvement till 2002, however, the economic situation of the agrarian population has deteriorated in the last months