The elaboration contains basic information on land use in agricultural holdings, crop and animal output, procurement, prices on the agricultural market as well as factors affecting the volume of production of agricultural and horticultural crops in 2017. To illustrate changes and tendencies in agriculture, data have been compared with the analogous values of the previous year and selected information has been shown in a retrospective since 2000. Certain data for Podlaskie voivodship have been shown against the background of the country and other voivodships.

In comparison with the previous edition, this publication has been supplemented with information on farms equipped with agricultural tractors and machines for plant protection treatment.