The cooperatives being specific organizational units have also their weak points. Peasants do not always understand the need for vertical integration or internationalization. Their main aim is to get high profit in the short time. However, the introduction of Common Agriculture Policy and the GATT will enforce the cooperatives to acting more decisively and to cooperate with their partners (branches, companies etc.). It would be of great importance all the possibilities tobe real and profitable because large size cooperatives are not always highly productive.
The paper's contents concentrate on defining the options of Polish agriculture development in context of accession to European Union. Pillars of the options construction are based on: Polish agriculture in long-run trends of agro-sector development, systemic transformation of Polish economy, accession of Poland to EU. Using the multi-bearing simulation analysis five alternative scenarios of development until 2020 have been defined and presented.