Supporting small and family-owned farms is among goals of the Common Agricultural Policy for the period 2014-2020. Poland stands as one of the primary beneficiaries of this focus.

Poland has one of the highest shares of small farms in its agricultural sector, yet the number of working poor smallholders is high.

73% of Poland’s 1.43 million farms are considered by the Central Statistical Office of Poland to be in the “small” category, i.e. under 10 hectares (ha). They also have a small area of cultivation – farms over 15 ha in size, despite representing only 14.3% of all Polish farms in number, have 60% of all arable area in Poland.