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). ...
The weather conditions in winter 2011/2012 in Poland caused severe frost killing of winter crops (in most areas up to 90%) requiring spring resowing. This brought about a considerable impact of chemical plant protection. The paper presents results from two farms, belonging to a State Treasury company, with intensive agricultural production, located in the Wielkopolska voivodship. The number of plant protection treatments increased due to resowing from 39.9 to 81.4%, depending on the farm, and the amount of used p.p.p.(plant protection products) increased from 51.9 to 153.7%. Costs of used p.p.p. increased overall by 28.5%. The value of multi-criteria index of pesticides negative impact on the environment increased from 18.8 to 39.8% in farms 1 and 2. Identifying extremes in plant protection will allow more accurate than only on the basis of average values, planning and calculation of effect in production, as well as projections of adaptation processes to the changing conditions of production caused by the on-going global climatic changes. ...
