Editing Second Polish Republic (section)

===Agriculture===
[[File:Libiaz-zniwa1938.a.jpg|thumb|upright|Manual harvesting in Żarki, Lesser Poland Voivodeship in August 1938 (Agfacolor).]]
[[File:PL Ursus Ciągówka.jpg|thumb|upright|''Ciągówka Ursus'' was the first Polish farm tractor, produced from 1922 to 1927 in the [[Ursus Factory]].]]

Statistically, the majority of citizens lived in the countryside (75% in 1921). Farmers made up 65% of the population. In 1929, agricultural production made up 65% of Poland's GNP.<ref name="lex"/> After 123 years of partitions, regions of the country were very unevenly developed. The lands of the former [[German Empire]] were the most advanced; in [[Greater Poland]], [[Upper Silesia]] and [[Pomerelia]], farming and crops were on a Western European level.<ref name="onet1"/>{{failed verification|not enough information given|date=February 2022}} The situation was much worse in parts of [[Congress Poland]], the [[Eastern Borderlands]], and what was formerly [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], where agriculture was quite backward and primitive, with a large number of small farms, unable to succeed in either the domestic or international market. Another problem was the overpopulation of the countryside, which resulted in chronic unemployment. Living conditions were so bad in several eastern regions, such as the counties inhabited by the [[Hutsul]] minority, that there was permanent starvation.<ref name="przeglad-tygodnik"/> Farmers rebelled against the government (see: [[1937 peasant strike in Poland]]), and the situation began to change in the late 1930s, due to the construction of several factories for the [[Central Industrial Region (Poland)|Central Industrial Region]], which gave employment to thousands of rural and small town residents.