摘要：The presented conception of multifunctional agriculture is a wider view of the process of creating and dividing the economic surplus in farming sector. It is a balanced approach which includes various aspects of creating the advantages for the community. The notion of agricultural multifunctionality is presented indicating its various interpretations. As a starting point for its consideration, the difference of public and private goods was taken. The issue of public goods, which cannot be excluded from consumption for social reasons, causes the situation that many rents in agriculture that result from it are not realised. The implementation of the multifunctional agriculture concept encounters obstacles such as difficulties in separating private and public goods as well as in taking appropriate methods for estimation of the other. In this paper, we show that taking into consideration more complex and integrated approach of the agricultural functions realisation allows to use the resources better in economy as a whole. In the paper, there is an indication to the particular EU members.
