EN
The fashion existing in the West concerning all forms of ecological agriculture has recently reached Poland and has resulted in the founding of several institutions connected with such agriculture. Similarly, a few hundred ecological farms have been founded, scientific circles have shown interest in it and there have appeared many publications on the subject. However, the very basics of this farming system and its effects, especially those conceming production should be reflected upon, not to mention that they show some lack of scientific basis. Analyses of more important problems connected with ecological agriculture show the necessity to conduct thorough, complex interdisciplinary research on the influence of this farming system upon our natural environment, on the efficiency of production and on the quality of products in all kinds of climatic and soil conditions. Only such results will enable us to objectively evaluate the pros and cons of ecological agriculture and to establish its place and extent in agriculture as such. Our knowledge so far, fragmentary as it is, seems to suggest that ecological agriculture may be a part of agriculture, while it is just good agriculture that will dominate.