Anna Kołodziejczak, Maria Kawińska Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Poznań, Poland Intensity of agricultural production organisation in Poland Abstract: This article presents changes in the intensity of agricultural production organi- sation that have taken place after Poland’s accession to the European Union. The research was conducted at the scale of poviats on the basis of data from Agricultural Censuses taken in the years 2002 and 2010. What largely determined changes in the intensity of agricul- tural production organisation were organisational-economic rather than natural conditions. The changes further increased the polarisation of crop and animal production in the coun- try. The range of those changes was considerable, especially in animal production. Key words: crop production, animal production, intensity, agriculture, Poland Introduction Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 and adoption of its Common Agricultural Policy has brought about fundamental changes in the country’s agri- culture, both in economic and spatial terms. The level and structure of agricul- tural production depends on natural conditions, but the changes observed over the years 2002–2010 were largely due to inancial intervention. The Common Agricultural Policy puts more emphasis on sustainable agriculture, innovations, market studies, and a system of support for all developing agricultural holdings. The switching of agricultural development to technologies favourable to the conservation of natural features and improvement of the environment by the ap- plication of good farming practices has translated into regional differences in the use of productive potential. By adjusting production to natural and organisation- al-technical conditions as well as choosing a technology the intensity of which is suited to its situation, a farm has the possibility to improve its eficiency and attain a speciied level of income (Krasowicz et al. 2007). Each region has its own speciic features and pursues its own strategy of agri- cultural development expressed in the relations between the intensity of organi- sation and the intensity of farming. The intensity of farming is deined as labour and capital inputs; the intensity of agricultural production organisation, as labour