The efficiency of ecological farms dependently upon their agricultural types

Abstract

This paper identifies and examines the management efficiency of ecological farms of two agricultural types: with milky cows and herbivore animals (fat stock, milky cows, sheep, goats and others). The analysis concerned a 3 years’ period and it used the ratio method. There were analysed 34 ratios: organizational, productive, economic and financial ones. The farms with herbivore animals breeding had on average about 62.8% bigger area of arable land comparing to farms with milky cows. The group of farms with milky cows gained the average production efficiency at the level of 115.5% while the farms with herbivore animals at the level of 85.7%. The income from a family farm between those farms groups did not very much, on average about 1.5%. But the share of total subsidies in that income in farms with milky cows breeding averaged at 76.1% while at farms with herbivore animals – 113.8%.