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Abstract
Family farm sector in Polish agriculture is characterised by a very negative
area structure. Acceleration of ownership changes in agriculture, especially
via transfer of agricultural holdings to this sector from the Agricultural
Property Stock of the State Treasury, which was set up mainly on the basis
of property from liquidated state-owned farms (PGR), was to contribute to
strengthening the sector and improvement in its structure. This paper aims
to evaluate the implementation of the goal. The research covers the 1990-
-1996 period, i.e. up to finalisation of the primary distribution of the Property
Stock. The analysis covered the main assumptions on how to distribute
the Property Stock and effects of realisation of these assumptions. Later,
changes in ownership, legal and organisational, and area structure were
analysed, especially changes in the individual farm groups, which were at
that time described as family farms. Conducted analysis demonstrated that
the planned effects were reached only to a small degree. Family farm sector
has decreased. There has been a clear polarisation in the area structure
of this sector. Average area of a farm in the sector increased only slightly.
However, the sector of large-area farms owned by private or legal persons
has increased significantly (beside cooperative farms, which existed prior to
system transformation period).