Poland Agriculture

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The Polish farming sector accounted for 6% of the GDP in 1998. There were serious losses in the agricultural sector after the floods of 1997. Furthermore, an important stock of cattle was lost and the grain crop dropped by a 6% compared to the previous year. The agricultural productivity increases slowly because of the medium surfaces of the farms. Polish agriculture was always characterized by the abundance of small private farms. This trend is the dismantling of the agricultural cooperative societies.

Farmland surface area:

The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. They represent 14,379,000 hectares in Poland.

Number of farms:

3,783,000

Crops

Livestock

Species	Headcount
Pigs	18,224,000

Number of tractors:

1,310,500

Irrigated land (surface area):

100,000 hectares.

Fishing yield in metric tons:

Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods	Saltwater fish
19,980 Tm.	315,039 Tm.

Aquacultural yield in metric tons:

451,346 Tm.