The objective of this paper was to present the reasons of the land purches on the basis of an example of Mazowsze Region. The paper is based on theoretical and empirical approaches. Firstly, importance of land factor in economic theory was presented. Research covered 703 respondents, managing farms in territory of 58 rural and urban-rural communities from the Mazowsze region. Farmers covered by research increased area of their farms as additional land allowed them to increase production potential, having access to increased direct payments and as capital investment. Respondents were aware of growing up of land price in Poland after Polish accession to EU
