Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej, Kraków
Abstract
The book contains 211 pages.In the text there are 39 tables. The supplement consists of 11 cartograms which deal
with the structure of farming, its economic-and-technical base and demographic structure.
The aim of the present work is the most precise possible definition of the principal procesees of the development
of small-area farming, existing in Cracow Region,as well as the possibilities and conditions of its modernization
as to agrarian structure, economic-and-technical base and agricultural production.
The author assumes that the small-area farming which appears in Southern Poland forms a relatively durable
structural element of national economy and contains considerable production reserves, chiefly in the domain of
labour, farm building and feeding stuff of its own. It would be able to take an active part in the increase of
provisions, necessary for the national welfare, if both external and internal conditions of its activity could
change.
The book consists of three principal chapters and introduction. Chapter I discusses problems connected with the
agrarian structure of small-area farming and its evolution in the 1970's. It includes as well a characterization
of the eguipment of small farms with farm buildings, agricultural machines and sources of power and an analysis of
the possibilities of desirable changes in field work and stock-farm work ere indicated.
Chapter II deals with the main factors of both the development and modernization of farming - demogrophic and
agricultural ones as well as those which are connectcd with service.
Chapter III contains an analysis of the economic-and-social functions of the communes and their influence on the
direction of the evolution of small-area farming. It includes as well some auggestions of the changes which may
help the modernization of small peasant farms.
Some conclusions close the book
