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Thischapterwillanswerthefollowingquestions:
Whatisagribusiness?
tendencies?
Whichsegmentsconstituteagribusiness?
Whatarethespecificitiesofagribusinessandkeyfinancialtraits?
WhatagribusinessfixedassetresourcesareavailableinPolandandwhataretheir
Whatfactorslimitagriculturalproductionandwhataretheirconsequences?
2.1.Theconceptofagribusiness
Thetermagribusinesswasfirstusedinscientificliteraturein1957,byJohnDavisand
RayGoldberg1.Accordingtotheseauthors,agribusinessisasystemintegratingAmeri-
canfarmerswiththeirsurroundings,including:
trade;
processing;and
thedistributionoffood.
InPoland,upuntil1989,thissystemofinterdependenciesbetweenagriculture
andotherbranchesofthenationaleconomywasalsoexamined,underthename:food
economycomplex2.Nowadays,agribusinessisdefinedasasubsystemofthenatio-
naleconomycreatedasaresultofaverticalintegrationofallthecellsofthenational
economyinvolvedinfoodproduction.Therefore,agribusinessencompasses:
agriculture;
fishing,
forestry;
agri-foodindustry;
industriesmanufacturingmeansofproductionandservicesforagricultureand
otherindustriesinvolvedinfoodproduction;
procurement;
tradeinfinishedfoodproducts.
transportationofagriculturalgoodsandmeansofproduction;
1Encyklopediaagrobiznesu,1998,FundacjaInnowacji,WyższaSzkołaSpołeczno-Ekonomiczna,Warsaw,p.15.
2A.Woś,1982,Rolnictwoipolitykarolnalatsiedemdziesiątych,PWRiL,Warsaw,p.81.
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