EN
The neighbour's leases have become a fixed form of farm land use in Poland. Land acreage under new lease contracts increased within 1991-1998 by 75%, from 200 to 350 thousand ha. Thus, an average annual rate of land leasing rise was 0.94%, being close to the rate of average farm acreage increase (0.93%). The rate of neighbour's land lease diffusion was strongly affected by either, macro-economic conditions (low production profitabillity) and wide competitive offer of the State treasury land, observed in 1992-1998 on the market particularly in northern and western regions of the country. The reasons for land leasing were in one-third only connected with the income factors, while in two-thirds dealt with the social and family motives. In 1992-1998 on an average about 100 thousand farms annually took the agricultural land and real estates on lease. At that time the average acreage of land leased under one contract increased by 53.6% from 2.8 to 4.3 ha. Nevertheless, it was still rather small acreage as more 10% lease contracts covered the whole farms, while the remaining 90% dealt with the separate ground plots. The market for neighbour's land leases in Poland retains its rural character and related offers are of very limited reach, less than the local (communal) one. Such a market in Poland has not been monitored and any its social extent, including active assistance of agricultural organizations or local authorities, does not exist. That seems to be an important defect as compared to arable land market in the EU countries.