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The article presents the influence of factors characterizing agricultural production on the progress and efffectiveness of the progress. These are the following factors: - area of arable land, and cropland, - area of corn production and root crops, - structure of live-stock, - fertilizers, - sowable material and seed potatoes, - nutritive fodder, - production of fodder and slaughter animals, - installed power and the size of the machine fleet. The investigations were carried out on several farms of Cracow vivodship.