Rutkowska, Irena2017-07-222017-07-221971Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 33, 1971, z. 3, s. 227-2460035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/18951Available data on per head incomes in agriculture to those in the rest of economy show that in almost all countries, with very few exceptions, per head incomes in agriculture are lower than those on other occupations. Since such disparity exists in the USA too, the subject of the study is the analysis of the relation between agricultural and non-agricultural incomes and of the causes of income disparity. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the narrowing of the gap between the incomes per head of farm and non-farm population is due to the growing off-farm incomes received by the farm population. The disparity between incomes from farming and from non-farm sources has not yet disappeared. The main cause of income disparity is not the difference in productivity in agriculture and in the rest of the economy, but the unfavourable tendencies in the level of prices received and paid by the farmers. Since one of the principal aims of the American agricultural policy is the rise of agricultural incomes level and the narrowing of the disparity between incomes received from farming and from other occupations, it can by said, that in this respect the American agricultural policy appears ineffective.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł