<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Decisions concerning investments in farm tractors is a significant problem of modern agricultural production. Ensuring efficient performance of agrotechnical treatments and a rational level of use of tractors in the aspect of exploitation costs are a derivative of the power equipment level in a farm. The paper presents studies carried out in 31 selected farms, which run production on the total acreage of 937 ha of agricultural land (AL) and exploit 70 tractors. Analysis covered information on: area of farms, number and power of used tractors, investments in technical equipment concerning purchase of farm tractors and a production profile. In the investigated farms at the average per 100 ha of the agricultural land area there was 7.47 tractors, 90% of respondents actively used subsidies available from the EU structural funds. A high energy equipment level was determined in particular in farm with a smaller acreage. Over 87% of farm used more than one tractor and the age of the third each did not exceed six years.</p></abstract>

Decisions concerning investments in farm tractors is a significant problem of modern agricultural production. Ensuring efficient performance of agrotechnical treatments and a rational level of use of tractors in the aspect of exploitation costs are a derivative of the power equipment level in a farm. The paper presents studies carried out in 31 selected farms, which run production on the total acreage of 937 ha of agricultural land (AL) and exploit 70 tractors. Analysis covered information on: area of farms, number and power of used tractors, investments in technical equipment concerning purchase of farm tractors and a production profile. In the investigated farms at the average per 100 ha of the agricultural land area there was 7.47 tractors, 90% of respondents actively used subsidies available from the EU structural funds. A high energy equipment level was determined in particular in farm with a smaller acreage. Over 87% of farm used more than one tractor and the age of the third each did not exceed six years.

Analysis of Power Equipment Level on the Example of Farm Tractors in Selected Farms of Przeworsk Province

Department of Power Energy and Transport Means

Agricultural Engineering

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Decisions concerning investments in farm tractors is a significant problem of modern agricultural production. Ensuring efficient performance of agrotechnical...

Analysis of Power Equipment Level on the Example of Farm Tractors in Selected Farms of Przeworsk Province

Publié en ligne: 04 oct. 2017

Pages: 17 - 27

Reçu: 01 févr. 2017

Accepté: 01 juin 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2017-0022

Mots clés
farm tractor, energy equipment level

© 2017 Sławomir Juściński et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Analysis of Power Equipment Level on the Example of Farm Tractors in Selected Farms of Przeworsk Province

Publié en ligne: 04 oct. 2017

Pages: 17 - 27

Reçu: 01 févr. 2017

Accepté: 01 juin 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2017-0022

Mots clésfarm tractor, energy equipment level

© 2017 Sławomir Juściński et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
farm tractor, energy equipment level