On 1 January, 1992 - the day the Agricultural Property Agency (APA) was established - agricultural land in Poland amounted to 18.8 million hectares (ha). The majority of land belonged to individual farmers who owned 72% of the entire agricultural area, whereas public and cooperative sectors occupied 28% of it.

To the end of 2008 the APA took over 4.7 million ha of land which primarily came from:
• former state enterprises– 3.7 million ha,
• State Land Fund (SLF) – 0.6 million ha,
• other titles – 0.4 million ha.
The property taken over by the APA included also 4 thousand food processing, trade and service facilities, 336 thousand apartments with infrastructure (boiler houses, water supply systems, sewage refineries, etc) and 2.1 thousand manor houses, palaces and park complexes.

Land Sale
From the beginning of its activity to the end of 2008 APA sold 1.8 million ha of land (i.e. 40% of area taken to the Agricultural Property Stock) within more than 214 thousand contracts. Statistically, a plot of 8.4 ha was sold per one concluded contract. In 2008 the average price of 1 ha of agricultural land amounted to 12 540 Polish złoty (PLN).
Of 336 thousand apartments taken to APS, 313 thousand were distributed mainly via sales to their tenants. Besides the land other assets with net book value of 8.6 billion PLN and liabilities of former state farms amounted to 2 billion PLN were taken over and entirely repaid by the APA.

The APA assignes part of its profits to support the "zabużanie " - people who lost their properties located in east of the Bug river after WWII. To the of 2008 the APA transferred more than 2 billion PLN to the Compensation Fund from which the "zabużanie claims" are financially satisfied.
Furthermore, the APA gave for free about 322 thousand ha of land to self-governmental units - mainly communes, National Forest and the churches of various denominations.

Land Lease
From the beginning of its activity to the end of 2008 the APA offered for lease 7.2 million ha cumulatively (sometimes one property was offered for lease more than once).
At the end of 2008 the land of 1.8 million ha were in lease.

APA Companies Activities
The APA performs ownership rights to 51 strategic companies: 9 plant breeding, 21 animal breeding and 21 horse breeding units.

Plant Breeding Companies
The companies perform both creative and preserved plant breeding. The horticultural breeding companies gather the most valuable genetic material of vegetables, flowers and decorative plants, and the agricultural breeding companies keep the most valuable genetic material of cereals, leguminous and papilionaceous plants, grasses, sugar and fodder beets and potatoes.


Horse Breeding
Horse breeding in studs is carried out according to assumptions for using genetic resources of APA reproductive studs for improvement of domestic horse population. APA companies rear 9 horse breeds: 5 companies rear Polish thoroughbreds and 3 purebred Arabians. Their goal is to keep purebred horses used also in breeding of half-blood breeds. 4 companies rear preserved breeds: Polish konik and Hucul Pony. The best stud of hucul breed in Europe is situated in Gładyszów. Polish konik is bred in Sieraków, Dobrzyniewo and Tulce (Kobylniki), where the total of 90 mares are held.


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