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However, the experts also estimate that 30 percent of Polish farms are already at the European level, with another 40 percent being just about to reach the standards. In spit of these optimistic estimations the current picture of the Polish countryside causes concern and sympathy with its mostly dilapidated farms, ruined barns, ancient tractors and farm machinery, thousands of hectares of untended land. Willy-nilly, our agriculture has to undergo some thorough reforms even if we have not got integrated with the EU. The integration will just speed up the outset of introduction of the reforms.