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AGRICULTURE EKOLAND certificate, as well as the whole environment (building, on-farm treatment plant). The data below indicate the development of agro-tourism and rural tourism within recent years: in 1990 there were as little as 590 agro-tourism households, whereas in 2002, according to the General Agricultural Census, there were 12 000 of such households of which 4 000 private rooms on farms. There are 128 000 beds in these private rooms from the hostel level to a luxurious suite at attractive and competitive prices. Most agricultural holdings ensuring agro-tourism and rural tourism services are located in ma∏opolskie (3 433), warmiƒsko-mazurskie (2 500), pomorskie (2 392) voivodships. Around 600 agro-tourism farms obtained categorisation from the Polish Federation of Rural Tourism “Guest Farms”. Further information on agro-tourism and rural tourism may be found on the website (www.agritourism.pl). Every year the rural tourism atlas Polish Villages Invite You and the map Rural Tourism are published. 30
AGRICULTURE Organisation of the agricultural market For many years measures have been carried out in Poland to establish market institutions involved in the professional organisation of wholesale trade in agri-food products and to set up agricultural producer groups co-operating with such markets. Resulting from the implementation of the ministerial programme and government programmes to establish and develop wholesale markets and the Warsaw Commodity Exchange – stages 1 and 2, over a dozen or so wholesale markets, established in the form of joint stock companies, operate in Poland. The main shareholders of these companies are the State Treasury, Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture, traders, self-government organisations, agricultural producers and other bodies. The operation of wholesale markets contributes to an improvement of agricultural holding effectiveness by ensuring: – greater price stabilisation, – supply and demand equilibrium, – introduction of standards, – reduction in the number of intermediaries in trade and consequently an increase in producers’ incomes, – stimulation of a process of adjusting agricultural production to market requirements, – establishment of a producer market (supply organisation). Thanks to co-ordination and concentration of supplies from producers and technical and logistics capabilities, wholesale markets offer large and homogenous product batches. They also offer services related to the promotion and advertising of agri-food products, quality control, standardisation, processing and packaging. The pan-regional wholesale markets built from scratch in Poznaƒ, Warsaw (Bronisze), Gdaƒsk, Wroc∏aw and Lublin (Elizówka) are state-of-the-art facilities, fulfilling European requirements. In addition, there are also local markets which were often established as a result of adaptation of the existing facilities. The wholesale markets are not only a trading place but also information databases on supply and demand. The markets are now starting establishing logistics centres that will facilitate trade in commodities in the area within the wholesale market influence. The proper functioning of the wholesale markets largely depends on the development of producer groups and their entry on the wholesale markets. The development of producer groups in Poland – taking into account particularly large fragmentation of agricultural holdings – is the primary task aimed at the proper operation of the Polish agricultural market and adaptation to EU requirements, especially those concerning the organisation of the fruit and vegetable markets. The process of setting up agricultural producer groups was commenced in Poland in 1992-1993. It was preceded by a rapid, fourfold fall in the share of the cooperative sector in buying in agri-food products and a five to sixfold fall in food processing. 31
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