Keywords
waste
profitability
vineyard
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Abstract
The purpose of the article is to assess the possibility of applying the circular business model to wine farms in Poland. The focus is on the economic aspects of producing grape seed oil as one of the waste products generated in the wine production chain. The manufacturing potential of grape seed oil in Poland was estimated based on the production resources and the processing capacity of wine farms. The profitability of oil production was determined for selected farms located in Lower Silesia. The data were obtained through interviews with wine producers participating in the “Cooperation” research project of the Rural Development Program. In the case of small wine farms, the scale of wine production does not allow achieving the level of oil production to cover its manufacturing costs. Large wine farms producing more than 10 thousand litres of wine may be interested in this type of production. The transition into the circular business model for wine farms based on grape seed oil production will, therefore, require establishing producer groups or developing relationships based on competition between wine producers.
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