The article analyses spatial differences in the afforestation of agricultural land in the mountain and piedmont areas of Poland. Apart from quantitative and structural changes in the area of new forest plantations, attention was paid to socio-economic determinants of the process of afforestation of agricultural land. The changes considered were those formally registered, which means that areas with a natural succession were not included. The analysis rested on the statistics collected in the Regional Data Bank and basically covered the years 2000-2006, but for private land use was made of the 1996–2006 data. The object of study was mountain and piedmont communes in the Carpathians and Sudeten. The research showed there to be a drop in the area of afforestation of agricultural land over the study period, which resulted from the diminishing area of new forest plantations on both, state-owned and private land in the two regions. This process was undoubtedly connected with the level of financial support, which was clearly evident especially in the case of private land. It was found that the financing of afforestation was a major factor in the rate of this practice. In each of the regions the changes followed a similar pattern, but differed ...
The purpose of the paper is to present terminology and definitions of degraded and uncultivated lands as well as pointing of the possibilities of their alternative development. It's worth stressing that the suggested land development changes should result from the predestination of a given area to fulfill certain goals as well as be in accordance with rules of law. In the research part of the paper on the basis of two consolidated objects the analyzed areas have been identified and it has been determined how the as-sumptions about the project refer to the selected areas in the light of the proposed changes of their former use. ...
The aim of the study was to estimate the variability of biometric parameters in the second year of cultivation of Scots pine on the post arable ground. Planting were carried out on the basis of post arable ground located in the Faculty Agro and Hydrometeorology Observatory of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Scots pine plants in the second year of cultivation increased in height from 43.1 cm to 53.39 cm, 10,29 cm, i.e. 24 % ie. The growth rate of pine was the highest in the first part of the growing season (until June 14), when the plant height increased by 7.69 cm, accounting for about 75% of the total, the annual increment in height. The second biometric parameters studied - the diameter of the trunk - increased in the second year of growing pine from 13.16 mm to 23.36 mm (by 10. 2 mm, ie. about 77 %). ...
The current paper presents the results of evaluation of the influence of selected measures within Rural Development Programme (RDP), such as spatial development, afforestation, land consolidation, water management, village renewal and agri-environmental programmes on rural areas in Poland.The data used in the study cover the years 2004-2015, and were collected from the reports of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Polish Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARMA), Polish Central Statistical Office (CSO), with special consideration given to normative acts concerning the Rural Development Plan 2007-2013 and 2014-2020, and the results of a study on different aspects of rural development conducted at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute in Puławy (IUNG-PIB). Our study clearly shows that aforementioned measures differ significantly in terms of the level of implementation in Poland. Thus, the spatial development operation, one of the most important activities in relation to the sustainable development of rural areas, has not been introduced in RDP as s separately task. Additionally, the initiatives regarding water retention were also not fully implemented under the RDP 2007-2013 because of the shortage of time. The process of land consolidation has contributed only to very little change in ...
