DIVESTMENTS AND ECONOMIC FALL OF FARMS - ATTEMPT AT TERMINOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION

Destruction processes are hardly identified with regard to farms being peculiar economic entities. The purpose of this paper is an attempt of differentiation between the following terms: divestments and the economic fall of farms. A theoretical analysis was illustrated with mass statistics data showing the scale on which farms in Poland discontinued farming activities and the results of quality research conducted among 50 landowners from the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The analyses presented here allowed to more fully describe the concept of a divestment stressing scope and durability of destructive changes that have been occurring and their planned and intentional nature.