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The development of rural areas in Poland should be based on the rule of sustainable development. This idea ensures the economic development considering the ecological aspect, in order to transfer natural environment in unchanged state for the future generations. The sustainable development of rural areas will secure the sustainable conditions for the agricultural development. This paper introduces principal questions: connected with the pro-ecological development of agriculture and the rural areas in the Świętokrzyska province. The most important menaces, which affect the natural environment of rural areas result from the agricultural and non-agricultural operations.