TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in grassland and their impact on milk production in Poland in the context of environmental protection
AU - Bórawski, Piotr
AU - Gotkiewicz, Wojciech
AU - Bełdycka-Bórawska, Aneta
AU - Szymańska, Elżbieta Jadwiga
AU - Brelik, Agnieszka
AU - Harper, Jayson K.
AU - Dunn, James W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was written by the project funded by the National Science Centre in Poland allocated on project OPUS 15, project No. 2018/29/B/HS4/00392. The Authors of the paper would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their comments, which helped to improve this paper.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The objective of our paper was to present changes in grassland in Poland and their impact on milk production in Polish agriculture. This topic is very important because Poland increased its milk production after integration into the European Union. At the same time, the area of grassland decreased. This caused the appearance of some environmental problems. More land became devoted to other usage such as roads and business. During 2007-2017 the area of permanent meadows in Poland (-3,8%), and pastures (-4,8%) decreased. In 2005-2017, although cow numbers decreased 25,8%, milk production increased 11,83% and milk yield per cow increased 50,2%. The changes in milk production caused concentration of this production mainly in three woivodeships in Poland: Podlaskie, Mazowieckie and Wielkopolskie. The situation in the milk market was created by many factors, among which elimination of the quota system is very important. This led to more milk production but allowed farmers to increase exploitation of grasslands.
AB - The objective of our paper was to present changes in grassland in Poland and their impact on milk production in Polish agriculture. This topic is very important because Poland increased its milk production after integration into the European Union. At the same time, the area of grassland decreased. This caused the appearance of some environmental problems. More land became devoted to other usage such as roads and business. During 2007-2017 the area of permanent meadows in Poland (-3,8%), and pastures (-4,8%) decreased. In 2005-2017, although cow numbers decreased 25,8%, milk production increased 11,83% and milk yield per cow increased 50,2%. The changes in milk production caused concentration of this production mainly in three woivodeships in Poland: Podlaskie, Mazowieckie and Wielkopolskie. The situation in the milk market was created by many factors, among which elimination of the quota system is very important. This led to more milk production but allowed farmers to increase exploitation of grasslands.
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U2 - 10.15244/pjoes/110040
DO - 10.15244/pjoes/110040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081607742
SN - 1230-1485
VL - 29
SP - 1567
EP - 1578
JO - Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
JF - Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
IS - 2
ER -