AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AS A TOOL OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY OBJECTIVES REALIZATION IN POLAND

Abstract

The present article is the voice in discussion about strategic planning and need of creation the national agricultural development strategy in Poland. The Main Statistic Office, Eurostat and European Commission in years 2002–2007 as well as scientific and Polish department of agriculture publications were used in the paper as the sources. Polish farms agricultural production efficiency stays away from efficiency characterizing farms in the “old” European Union countries. Strategy, based on agricultural sector complex diagnosis, will allow select proper instruments of interactions on national as well as European Union’s level, leading to targets according to the national-wide socio-economic development strategy. This strategy should, in face of hitherto experience got by countries benefits from common agricultural policy, protect Polish agriculture from copying errors, which have taken a stand although benefits,from the CAP till now.