Evaluation of possibility to use typological procedure and Wrocław taxonomy to analyse agriculture development conditions on the example of the former Kraków Voivodeship communes

The paper presents comparative analysis of two methods: typological procedure and Wrocław taxonomy method. Possibilities of their usage to evaluate agriculture development conditions were also presented. Particular attention was paid to comparison of proceedings course, particular methods stages and also gained results. Chosen analysis methods allow to delimitate problem-areas for which the tested phenomenon has got complex character. Agriculture development conditions are influenced by numerous factors starting from variables of natural character, through demographic determinants economic factors in other words called socioeconomic factors. Presented procedures allow to distinguish areas similar with regard to some features found as diagnostic ones, whereas these methods can be used to describe multipurpose phenomena because variables number accepted to the analysis is not restricted and the research area can be freely selected. The received result is helpful to estimate affiliation to extracted commune types. Analyses were performed in the area of the former Kraków Voivodeship excluding the municipal commune of Kraków. A commune was the field of the basic evaluation of performed research. Comparison of typological procedure and Wrocław taxonomy method allows to conclude about advantages and disadvantages of particular methods. The range of described methods applicability is also possible to define.