Infrastructure and technical means of production in agricultural holdings in the aspect of selected farming factors in districts of the malopolskie province

The paper presents an assessment of the influence of biological conditions for farming in selected agricultural districts on the quantity of basic and specialist means of production on farms described by many authors as agricultural infrastructure of these farms. The conditions of crucial importance for the method and results of farming are the indices of soil agronomic usability, size and agrarian structure and other natural conditions, e.g. agroclimate, area relief and aspect, water conditions, etc. Spatial analysis comprises spatial distribution of agricultural infrastructure potential as a synthetic index of development and subsequently, considering this index as a measure of development, determining a portion of groups similar considering soil quality and other biological conditions of agricultural management (spatial evaluation index). For comparison, technical infrastructure of agricultural holdings was characterized using aggregated synthetic index of many diagnostic features, whose construction bases on Hellwig development measure. Data for the analysis were taken from the results of Agricultural Census 2002 and data on agronomic usability of soils and biological framing conditions supplied by IUNG at Puławy. Proper technical infrastructure of agricultural holdings is one of more important factors affecting the character of agriculture. In many cases the infrastructure on farms of Polish villages is ...

The use of multidimensional scaling in the analysis of infrastructural potential of agricultural holdings in selected municipalities of the malopolskie province

Determining infrastructural potential of a municipality is possible by measuring a number of diagnostic features describing this potential in the municipality – the number of these variables depends mainly on the purpose of the analysis. 13 variables considered as diagnostic were used in this paper to illustrate diversification of agricultural infrastructure of farms on the municipality level. The set of these variables marks a point in the multidimensional space, which is characteristic for each investigated object but differentiating objects among themselves. The potential was estimated on the basis of synthetic measure of development which is an aggregate of diagnostic features. The computed synthetic index reduces multidimensional data to a single number and replaces the point in the multidirectional space by a point on an axis in one-dimensional space. The goal of the article is to show if the picture of a population of municipalities in their many dimensions and original shape seen through synthetic coefficient is similar to the original and whether the obtained one-dimensional distance properly reflects distances in the initial space of the studied infrastructure potential. In the presented work the information quality provided by the synthetic coefficient computed for the studied districts has been analysed using multidimensional ...