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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 after accession of Poland to the European Union. This paper introduces principal questions; these are connected with the pro-ecology development of agriculture and the rural areas in Poland. The most important menaces, which effect the natural environment of rural areas resulting of the agricultural and non-agricultural operations.