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Poland Organization under State Planning
Beginning with decollectivization in 1956, Poland was
the
only member of Comecon where the private sector
predominated in
agriculture. The state maintained indirect control,
however,
through the state agencies that distributed needed input
materials and purchased agricultural produce. Compulsory
delivery
quotas were maintained for farms until the beginning of
the
1970s. The state also retained significant influence on
the
process of cultivation, restrictions on the size of farms,
and
limitations on the buying and selling of land. Until the
beginning of the 1980s, the allocation system for
fertilizers,
machines, building materials, fuels, and other inputs
discriminated severely against private farmers. As a
result of
these policies, private farms remained inefficiently small
and
labor-intensive.
Data as of October 1992
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