Structure, concentration et planification du secteur agroalimentaire en Pologne

The main aim of Polish farm policy is — to reconcile the increase in farm production with a transformation of individual production into a system of modern socialist forms. — to give a planned structure not only to food production but also to the circulation of food products between town and country. The systematic reduction of the total area of land farmed (the land thus made available is to be used for non- agricultural purposes) is possible because : — the peasant economy has considerable production reserves — these reserves can be exploited, in a planned system, by a policy of intensive farming. The constant increase of farm production based on the social concentration of land is a strategic objective of government policy in Poland. To attain this goal : — industry must be stepped up to meet agricultural needs — the labour force must be reduced in farming to ensure increased efficiency — socialist forms of farm labour economy must be intensified and developed to make possible a higher standard of living than individual economies. At present the setting-up of a food economy complex in which agricultural production, the agricultural means of production industry, and the farming-food-stuffs industry would be closely connected, is being considered.