%0 Journal Article %T Level of specialization and efficiency of farms producing pigs for slaughter %A Mariusz Dziwulski %J Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development %D 2012 %I Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu %X The paper presents the impact of specialization of farm producing pigs for slaughter on their economic performance. The main issue of the study was to show the dependence between family farm income, as well as income from pigs for slaughter production and the level of specialization. The results show, positive impact of farms specialization on economic results of these farms. Increase of the level of specialization implied increase of the family farm income, income from pigs for slaughter production and profitability of land and labour. %K pigs for slaughter %K specialization of farm %K profitability %K scale of farming %U www.jard.edu.pl/tom23/zeszyt1/art_3_pl.pdf