Department of Rural Geography and Local Development

ATLAS OF POLISH AGRICULTURE

Atlas of Polish Agriculture goes beyond the standards of traditional cartographic elaboration. Apart from its rich cartographic content, it provides a synthetic description of the most important phenomena enriched with numerous tables, diagrams and photographs. Thereby, it constitutes a complete image of the state of Polish farming in a spatial approach of various scales (local, regional and national). The Atlas can be used by the scientific community and spatial planning offices as a basis for analytical studies and expert assessments in the field of agriculture. It can also serve as a basic reference material for a variety of public administration institutions as well as social and economic organisations, likewise for didactic purposes at university level.

• size 42 x 29.7 cm hardcover
• 126 pages, 181 maps, 58 charts and graphs, and numerous tables, figures and photographs
• text commentary in Polish and summaries in English

Wstęp (J. Bański)
Introduction
1. Znaczenie rolnictwa w gospodarce Polski (J. Bański)
The role of agriculture in Polish economy
2. Warunki naturalne rolnictwa (J. Bański)
Environmental conditions of agriculture
3. Rozwój gospodarki rolnej w Polsce (J. Bański)
Development of agriculture in Poland
4. Ludnoość rolnicza (K. Czapiewski)
Agricultural population
5. Rolnicze użytkowanie ziemi (J. Bański)
Agricultural land use
6. Struktura agrarna (K. Czapiewski i B. Głębocki)
Land structure
7. Wyposażenie techniczne i środki produkcji
(M. Mazur i D. Świątek)
Technical facilities and production goods
8. Uprawy roślinne (J. Bański)
Plants cultivation
9. Zwierzęta gospodarskie (R. Kulikowski)
Farm livestock
10. Produkcja rolnictwa (R. Kulikowski)
Agricultural production
11. Agroturystyka i rolnictwo ekologiczne
(M. Bednarek-Szczepańska)
Agritourism and organic farming
12. Nauka, szkolnictwo i organizacja obsługi rolnictwa
(K. Czapiewski)
Science, education and agricultural service