Department of Pomology and Horticultural Economics

The Laboratory of Organization and Economics (the original name was Zakład Organizacji Socjalistycznych Przedsiębiorstwo Przedsiębiorstw Ogrodniczych) was established in 1954 as a unit at the Department of Organization of Socialist Agricultural Enterprises at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of Agriculture. In 1956 the name was changed to Zakład Organizacji Produkcji Ogrodniczej, and in 1976 to Zakład Ekonomiki i Organizacji Ogrodnictwa. By the decision of the Rector, on February 1, 1979, the Department was transferred to the Faculty of Horticulture at the Institute of Horticulture. After the institutes were closed in 1982, the Department was transformed into the Department of Organization and Economics of Horticulture. At the end of the 90s, the unit was renamed the Independent Laboratory for the Organization and Economics of Horticulture. In 2019, after administrative changes, the Department of Horticulture and Economics of Horticulture was established, including the Laboratory of Horticulture Organization and Economics. Currently, the functions of the head of the unit are performed by dr inż. Dawid Olewnicki

The heads of the unit were in turn:

• Prof. dr hab. Nora Krusze (1955-1983)
• Doc. dr hab. Tadeusz Dąbrowski (1983-1990)
• Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Ciechomski (1990-2009)
• Prof. dr hab. Lilianna Jabłońska (2009-2016)

Research topics – continuous:
– Conditions for the development of horticultural management in selected countries
– Competitiveness and innovation in the horticulture sector
– Management in the agri-food market

Research tasks – issues depending on the importance of problems in horticulture.

Objective scope of the research:

Macro and microeconomic aspects of development:

– individual departments of the horticultural sector – horticulture, vegetable growing, floriculture
– production and market of individual horticultural products
– horticultural production and market in Poland and other countries

– changes in the size and structure of horticultural production
– changes in the consumption pattern, with particular emphasis on the consumption of vegetables, fruit and ornamental plants
– demand for horticultural products and its determining factors
– long-term and short-term analysis of production costs
– productivity and economic efficiency of production
– implementation of progress in horticultural farms – condition, causes and effects
– organization and functioning of the sales market
– long-term and short-term analyzes of price changes in the horticultural market
– foreign trade in horticultural products
– the quality of horticultural products as a competitive factor
– standardization and quality management systems in horticulture
– analysis of the implementation process of quality management systems (HACCP, EurepGAP) in horticultural farms
– organization and functioning of producer groups in Poland
– the operation of the horticulture sector under the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables
– interventionism in the horticultural market and its consequences for the development of horticulture
– the horticultural sector and agri-environmental programs
– horticultural farms and rural development
– EU policy in relation to the agricultural and horticultural sector
– methods of socio-economic evaluation of the investment efficiency of green areas
– economic aspects of environmental protection in various regions of the country
– ecological conditions for the functioning of the horticultural market (supply and demand side)
– marketing strategies on the horticultural market
– systemic approach to management in the agri-food sector

1. International grant “Smart Plants In The Workplace And Their Impact On Work Efficiency And Stress Reduction” (Project Id: 21910216, Fundusze Visegrad (2019/2020). Project manager: dr hab. Beata Fornal

Project idea

Improving the work efficiency of students and academic staff, as well as minimizing stress by arranging selected interiors of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences with potted plants.

2. “Marketing, promotion and market analysis: analysis of the value and structure of the organic production market in Poland, with particular determination of the value of its individual industries”

The project is financed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development pursuant to § 8 para. 1 point 2 and sec. 8 and no. 7 of Annex 7 to the Ordinance of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of July 29, 2015. on the rates of specific subsidies for various entities performing tasks for agriculture (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 1170, Journal of Laws of 2016, item 1614 and of 2017, item 1470), April 26, 2019

Duration: 1.06 – 15. 11.2019

Project leader: dr hab. Sylvia Żakowska-Biemans

• The ABC of Entrepreneurship
• Man in business
• Economics, law and taxes in economic activity
• Economics and organization of horticultural production
• Economics of plant protection
• Finance, banking, marketing
• Plant protection service companies
• Logistics in plant protection
• Logistics in horticulture
• Support mechanisms for agriculture in the European Union
• Gardening in the world
• Basics of running a business
• Plant protection law
• Horticulture market
• Cooperation of horticultural farms with the public and private sectors
• Selected aspects of the functioning of the horticultural economy and market
• Management and marketing in the agri-food sector
• Human resource and production management