Summary:

The following article presents the process of the exclusion of lands from agricultural and forest production on the basis of data for Siedlce district. The purpose of the article is to analyze the overall changing tendencies in the ways of using the lands. Secondly, the focus is put on the discussion of the purposes of on which the decisions of exclusion between 2000-2005 were taken. The process is also contrasted against current regulations on the protection of agricultural and forest lands. The procedure of exclusion of agricultural and forest lands is complicated, time- consuming and involves hard work of a number of people. The article discusses the overall characteristics of all the procedure and what follows, the directions of the development of the economy as well as the data of forest and agricultural land market for Siedlce city. The results of the survey are discussed and illustrated with graphs and maps.