The paper deals with the issues of economic activity and sources of extra income sought by the population of rural areas of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The first section shows non-agricultural activities undertaken by farmers on their farms. The second part of the paper analyses 332 farms of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in order to define reasons and socio-economic conditions of the farms which have undertaken the above activity. The study, which is part of the Project ‘Agrinpol’, was based on a survey carried out among the above-mentioned farmers.

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