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Economic sustainability of agriculture – conceptions and indicators 129defining the stages of sustainable development of a farm. In both attitudes, a numberof indexes are required and certain ranges of values referring to the particular aims ofsustainable development. They serve as a basis for building synthetic indexes of sustainability(Table 4).On the other hand, the calculation of losses takes into account not only private costs,born by the producer and the consumer, but also social costs, environmental costs andTable 4. Economic sustainability of agriculture: an experimental set of aggregated economicindicatorsTabela 4. Ekonomicznie zrównoważone rolnictwo: eksperymentalny zestaw zagregowanychwskaźników ekonomicznychBalanceof ResourcesEffectiveness,Competitiveness& EfficiencyDivision& Diversityof Incomes,RedistributionEnvironmental Economic Social Institutional• Net Pro-EcologicalInvestment• Net AgriculturalInvestment• Net SocialInvestment• Net InfrastructuralInvestment inRural AreasEnvironmental Economic Social Institutional• Profitabilityof EcologicalProduction• Productivity ofLabour, Land& Capital• Profitabilityof Sales ofEcological Products• Terms of Tradeof EcologicalAgriculturalProducts;• Profitabilityof AgriculturalProduction• Profitability ofLabour, Ground& Capital• Profitability ofSales• Terms of Tradeof AgriculturalProducts• Profitabilityof Farm;• Labour Efficiency• Structure of Incomein Farmers’Families;• Expenditureon SupportingAgriculturalProduction• Expenditureon SupportingEcologicalProduction• Expenditure onSupporting PriceSurchargesEnvironmental Economic Social Institutional• Share of EcologicalAgriculture in GDP• Income FromFarming perPerson Employed inEcological Farm• Share of Incomesfrom Farming inTotal Incomes• Agricultural GDPPer Capita• Share ofAgriculture in GDP• AgriculturalIncome perEmployed Person• Share of Incomesfrom Agriculturein Total Incomes• Income Parityof Households• Off Farm Incomes;• IncomeDistribution• Poverty Line• Expenses onConsumption& Investments;• Share of PublicSupport inFinal AgriculturalProduction• Expenditure onDevelopment ofEconomic & SocialInfrastructure• Regional &Sectoral PublicExpenditureSource: Authoress’ own compilation on the basis of: [Indicators… 2000 and Indicators… 2001].Źródło: Opracowanie własne na podstawie: [Indicators… 2000 i Indicators… 2001].Oeconomia 10 (1) 2011