CONDITIONS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND PRICES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND
The aim of the paper has been to diagnose factors determining agricultural landprices, classifying them and determining which of them plays the most importantrole. The considerations were based on selected subject literature, the results ofresearches conducted by other authors, as well as analysis of statistical data from theCentral Statistical Office of Poland and Eurostat. Factors determining agriculturalland prices in Poland can be divided into two groups: 2) Market: supply and demandfor agricultural land allotted to agricultural production; supply and demand foragricultural land that can be, in compliance with the binding law, allotted to purposesother than agricultural; simultaneous functioning of two market segments - private(on which a majority of land trading is conducted among farmers) as well as the statemarket segment – the Stock of Agricultural Property of the State Treasury managed,on behalf of the owner - the State Treasury, by the state institution - the AgriculturalProperty Agency; profitability of agricultural production. 2) Non-market: historicalconditions – dominance of private property in Polish agriculture, both in the marketeconomy and in the previous economic system; tradition, culture - passing farmsfrom generation to generation; Poland’s accession to the European Union andcovering Polish farmers with common agricultural policy instruments; ending thetransitional period of purchasing Polish agricultural properties by foreigners on 1May 2016. After this period, the hitherto limitations (special permits) for foreignersin purchasing agricultural properties in Poland were lifted.