RURAL FARM

Natural conditions in Podlaskie provice are not very good development of agriculture.Vegetational period is very short and lasts about 190 days. There are also weak soils, so we’ve got mostlu grasslands and pasture. Thus, breeding of cattle is led on this area.

In Podlasie province there are about 107 thousand rural farms. The least numbers of the farms are farms of the surface below 2 ha. Nowadays the number of farms between 50 to 100 ha significantly increases.

There are three types of farms in Podlaskie province:

Traditional

SPECIALIZED

AGROTOURISTIC

Traditional farm

Farm of small surface, with multidirection specialization, traditional family farm. Majority work is done manually. People produce things only for personal needs. .

Their number dicreases all the time because they ae not efficient enough. All the products are healthy.

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Specialized farm

Specialized farms are mechanized and assigned for production of articles needed by the market.

Thus, so, milky direction is popular in podlasie province The products ,ade by Mlekovita, Piątnica, Mlekpolare are known in Poland and abroad. They are exported to Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Lithuania and Belorussia.

Agricultural farm

This farm offers relax time in village conditions. Can be joined with work with people assuring accomodation. Treated as alternative source of job for village inhabitants.

This is the form of the tourism .

Prepared by:

Martyna NitkiewiczKamila TulkisBeata JakubowskaUrszula RyczekMagda Porowska

April 2011Comenius Project