THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN POLAND IN THE YEARS 2004-2011 – THE TAXONOMIC AND ECONOMETRIC ANALYSES

The aim of the paper was to assess the regional differentiation of the level of agriculture and its changes over time. Based on the synthetic measure of development the rankings of regions (provinces) were created. The objects were also classified and divided into groups of a similar level of agriculture. In addition, in order to identify the long-term tendency in this sector of economy, the process of -convergence of the level of agriculture has been studied. For the verification of hypotheses dynamic panel models were applied. All computations were performed in the Gretl, based on CSO data.