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Evolution of contemporary agriculture indicates the need of integral shaping of agricultural and food economy, forestry and the development of rural areas. New conditions of the social and economic development of Poland change the role of agricultural economics and forestry, family farms undergo production and income evolution (process of concentration), and changes taking place in utilization of agricultural land create a new opportunity for development of the forestry. The paper defined the changes in importance of land as a factor of agricultural production, appearance of big areas of non utilized land (idle lands, fallows), the possibilities of forest utilization of this land (enforestation) and agricultural-forestry utilization of the land (agriforestation).