To ensure that the agri-environmental programmes work efficiently in Koszalin county, a high level of involvement and effort from administrators, scientists, environmental organisations, agricultural advisory centres and, most importantly, beneficiaries/farmers is required. There is no doubt that the National Agri- Environmental Programme constitutes an essential change in the system of environmental protection in our country, because it assumes that the farmer can successfully actively protect the environment on his own land. From hereon environmental protection is no longer the exclusive domain of office workers and foresters. It is important that active environmental protection exceeds the borders of protected areas – national parks and reserves. Managers of these areas as well farmers will need money to carry out active environmental protection. Such means are provided by the National Agri-Environmental Programme. ...
Protection of the quality of water resources against pollution of agricultural origin requires multidirectional actions. These include reduction of pollution at its source by introduction, among others, appropriate husbandry in respect of the outbuilding area and arable land. Such actions in agricultural areas are enabled by appropriate agricultural-environmental program packages. They contribute to establishment of constant and sustained development of rural areas by protection of natural environment, natural qualities and cultural heritage. They are also financial tools as remuneration for actions in support of environment protection. This paper discusses the concept of agricultural-environmental programs, particularly considering packages that favour water protection. 188 As exampled by the catchment area of Brzózki water reservoir located in the catchment area of the Pratwa River in Opole Province, advancement of execution of packages for water protection was subject to a quantity and surface analysis. It was demonstrated that the largest surface share in the reservoir catchment area in execution of the package “water and soil protection” is contributed by large agricultural companies (with area over 50 ha). None of the analysed agricultural-environmental applications included the package “buffer zones.” On the basis of the investigation of the reservoir catchment area, it was determined that the ...
The paper presents the territorial differences in the implementation of "soil and water protection" agri-environmental package within the scope of the Rural Development Plans, RDP 2004-2006 and RDP 2007-2013, in Poland. The research material involved data provided by the Management Information System of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture developed on 16.04.2010 by the Department of Analyses and Reporting. The main beneficiaries were farmers in the voivodships in the north-western part of the country. The most interesting variant for farmers was the "stubble catch crop". The greatest interest in cereals and cruciferous was noted for catch crops. Ratio of area covered by the implementation of the package in the RDP 2004-2006 to agricultural land in farms (%) was positively correlated with the average area of arable land per farm (ha), percentage share of cereals in cropping area and negatively correlated with cattle stock in head per 100 ha of AL. In RDP 2007-2013 this ratio was positively correlated with consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers per 1 ha of AL (kg), average economic size of farm (ESU) and Standard Gross Margin (SGM) of farm (PLN). ...
