Effect of modern apple production technologies on development of family orchard farming with particular focus on Polish conditions
2017
Gaworski, M., Warsaw Univ. of Life Sciences (Poland) | Ciesielski, W., Warsaw Univ. of Life Sciences (Poland) | Kaminska, N., Warsaw Univ. of Life Sciences (Poland)
The aim of this paper was to present the effect of modern apple production technologies on the development of family orchard farming and possible savings in the farm’s economic calculation. The state of the art concerning farming was presented to show the effect of the new technologies implemented and new technical equipment on fruit production efficiency as well as market competitiveness of the analysed farm. The investigations presented in the paper were carried out in the production and storage season of 2015/2016. New technical equipment was assessed including the index of technological level and economic balance, i.e. costs spent to equip the fruit farm with specialist machinery and tractors as well as the income and overall profit resulting from application of the new technical solutions. Moreover, the results of the experiment with apples in the orchard were presented. The experiment included two options: one part of fruit trees irrigated and the other part of fruit trees not irrigated. The structure of the picked up apples in the experiment was considered to find the effect of irrigation on the apple yield and possible profit/loss of the income from orchard production in case of farms equipped and not equipped with modern technologies of orchard irrigation.
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