LEVEL OF EQUIPMENT WITH THE MACHINERY PARK AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO SUPPORTING ECOLOGICAL FARMS WITH THE EU FUNDS

Summary. The paper presents analysis of equipment with the machinery park in 30 ecological farms. Area of arable land was accepted as a grouping variable. Activities related to integration of our country with the European Union constituted the second aspect of the paper. In order to fully realize the accepted objective of the paper, replacement value of the machinery park, which was at the average 16.44 thousand PLN . ha -1 AL, was calculated. Quantitative machinery equipment proved that each examined farm possessed inter alia one tractor and a farm trailer as a transport mean. Characteristics of tractors proved that they were at the average 16 years old and their average power was of 5.91 kW . ha -1 AL. 24 out od 30 responders, declared that they additionally used available subsidies within structural funds both preaccession and after integration with the EU.