EN
Structural pensions are an important element of agricultural policy after the accession of Poland to The European Union. They are aimed at giving an income to farmers who are at their pre-retirement age, provided that they will give up their agricultural activity, and making the generation changes in the country faster. The process of handing over of arable lands to the farmers influences structural pensions, witch are submitted in Plock, clearly indicates the growing tendency towards expending the area of farms in communities witch the bigger rate of large households. Farmers from the communities, where conditions for running agricultural activity are worse, participate in structural pensions to the less extend. This in return, inevitably influences the slower pace of structural changes in agricultural households in this communities.