Finansowanie działalności inwestycyjnej w wybranych gospodarstwach rolniczych Podkarpacia

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the sources of financing investment activities in selected farms of Podkarpacie region, using the criteria of the investment’s value. It shows that investments were mainly financed by the European Union’s structural funds, following own sources, then credits and loans. The paper argues that such order of sources of financing may originate form the fact that farmers tend to avoid the credit market and want to gain access to the capital on lowest possible cost. At the same time, when the value of investment increases, the role of own founds significantly decreases, and accordingly grows the share of commercial credits. The results shows that financing based on the sources from EU structural funds contributes to increase of farms’ own capital and accordingly to reduction of financial risk