| Issue |
BIO Web Conf.
Volume 10, 2018
Contemporary Research Trends in Agricultural Engineering
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| Article Number | 02010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Engineering and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20181002010 | |
| Published online | 26 March 2018 | |
Farm size and volume of external transportation services at selected farm businesses
Department of Production Management and Applied Computer Science, Balicka 116B, 30-149 Kraków, Poland
* Corresponding author: Stanislaw.Kokoszka@urk.edu.pl
The present survey and data analysis confirmed the impact of the farm size (based on the Utilized Agricultural Area) on the volume of external transportation services despite the overall improvement of owned means of transport. The main transport characteristic, i.e. shipment distance increases with the farm size. Hence, the largest farm businesses characterized by higher commercial outputs use external transportation services to a greater extent although they own better quality and higher number of farm vehicles. At the average freight volume transported by external services of 4.37 tons per hectare of the Utilized Agricultural Area, the share of contracted transportation services in the total freight transport increases from 13.95 % in the smallest farms to 28.42 % in the largest farm businesses. This analysis was confirmed by the correlation analysis between the farm size and volume of external transportation services.
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