Zmiany struktury ekonomicznej gospodarstw rolnych w Polsce – ocena opóźnień w rozwoju strukturalnym
The aim of the paper was to estimate the structural development gap in Polish agriculture at the regional level (provinces) and to assess the unification process of economic structure of farms. The economic structure of farms was determined on the basis of the value of Standard Output (SO). The research was conducted based on EUROSTAT data for the period 2005-2013. In order to estimate the structural development gap in agriculture the procedure proposed by Karol Kukuła was used. This procedure is based on the regional structural analysis methods and requires the indication of the exemplar structure - the standard province). The standard province was identified with the use of Hellwig synthetic measure. It was found that the biggest structural development gap of farms was observed in the southern-east region of Poland. At the same time, in provinces from this region of Poland the structural development gap compared to wielkopolskie province served as a standard province increased in the years 2005-2013.