The agricultural land and forest land dominate in land use structure. A qualitative and quantitative reserye of agricultural land is important for food economy. Changes in area, which result from social, economic and ecological development, have an effect on dynamics of land use structure. The analysis includes the agricultural land in Opole province, but the present work is synthetic formulation of results. The paper describes state at the present time and prospects of quantitative changes in area of agricultural land, identifies and characterizes processes which effect change of area or qualities of agricultural land. Formulating 3 yariants of quantitative prognosis of agricultural land basing on following hypothesis; trend of changes consistent with hitherto existing dynamics, intensify of ratę afforestation of agricultural land by farm workers, intensify of ratę of building of agricultural land.

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