<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Excessive distribution of holdings is one of the most important barriers which causes that in a great part of Poland rational use of farms in impossible. This problem particularly concerns the south and east region of the country. Correct spatial distribution of lands belonging to holdings is one of the most crucial factors that enable an economically profitable activity of these farms. The aim of the paper was verification of the applicability of the prepared spatial data base, farm-land configuration of agricultural plots of the selected agricultural farms to indicate the areas of optimization of the internal transport. As a result, based on the developed spatial data base, an impact of the land configuration of agricultural plots in the investigated group of agricultural producers on organization of the field transport between the holding and agricultural plots was determined. The scope of the paper covered a vegetable producer group, which associates 5 farms that have in total 620 ha of agricultural land.</p></abstract>

Excessive distribution of holdings is one of the most important barriers which causes that in a great part of Poland rational use of farms in impossible. This problem particularly concerns the south and east region of the country. Correct spatial distribution of lands belonging to holdings is one of the most crucial factors that enable an economically profitable activity of these farms. The aim of the paper was verification of the applicability of the prepared spatial data base, farm-land configuration of agricultural plots of the selected agricultural farms to indicate the areas of optimization of the internal transport. As a result, based on the developed spatial data base, an impact of the land configuration of agricultural plots in the investigated group of agricultural producers on organization of the field transport between the holding and agricultural plots was determined. The scope of the paper covered a vegetable producer group, which associates 5 farms that have in total 620 ha of agricultural land.

Support of Internal Transport Optimization in Farms with the Use of Spatial Information Systems

Department of Engineering of Bioprocesses, Power Energy and Automation

Department of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Informatics

Department of Economics and Organization of Enterprises

Department of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry in Krakow

Agricultural Engineering

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Excessive distribution of holdings is one of the most important barriers which causes that in a great part of Poland rational use of farms in impossible. This...

Support of Internal Transport Optimization in Farms with the Use of Spatial Information Systems

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 87 - 94

Received: Nov 01, 2020

Accepted: Dec 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2020-0038

Keywords
vegetable agricultural production, internal transport, data base, agrarian structure

© 2020 Jakub Sikora et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Support of Internal Transport Optimization in Farms with the Use of Spatial Information Systems

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 87 - 94

Received: Nov 01, 2020

Accepted: Dec 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2020-0038

Keywordsvegetable agricultural production, internal transport, data base, agrarian structure

© 2020 Jakub Sikora et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
vegetable agricultural production, internal transport, data base, agrarian structure