Sytuacja ekonomiczna gospodarstw specjalizujących się w uprawach polowych w Polsce na tle wybranych krajów UE

The aim of the research was to assess economic results and production efficiency in farms specializing in field crops classified by economic size in five EU countries: Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania and Hungary. The analysis utilized the average two-year FADN EU data, from 2015-2016. The profitability of land, production efficiency, and farm debt were tested. On average, in the sample, the highest income without subsidies per 1 ha of UAA was obtained on Romanian farms, while on Bulgarian farms a loss was recorded. In Bulgarian farms from economic size classes 3-6 and Lithuanian from classes 1-3, the costs exceeded the value of production. A similar situation occurred in Hungarian and Polish farms from the sixth class of economic size. This means that production was economically ineffective. The debt of farms increased with the increase of economic size, but it did not exceed the limit value for which 50% is assumed.