Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland)

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi
Official governmental wall plaque
Ministerial logotype
Agency overview
Headquarters	ul. Wspólna 30, Warsaw
Agency executive	Krzysztof Jurgiel, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , First Deputy Minister
Parent agency	Council of Ministers
Website	www.minrol.gov.pl

Building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

One of the entrances to the Ministry's main building

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi) was formed on October 1999, from transformation of Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy of Poland; the ministry can trace its history to 1944.

The Ministry's 1999 incarnation was because development of rural regions was Poland's greatest political, economic, and social challenge that was uncontested by both coalition and opposition politicians.

The ministry is concerned with various aspects of Polish agriculture and improving its rural areas.

The current minister is Krzysztof Jurgiel.

List of ministers

Ministers of Agriculture and Food Economy (1989-1999)

No.	Name	Term of Offices	Party	Served under
1	Czesław Janicki	20 December 1989 - 6 July 1990	United People's Party/Polish People's Party	Tadeusz Mazowiecki
2	Janusz Byliński	14 September 1990 - 14 December 1990	Polish People's Party - People's Agreement	Tadeusz Mazowiecki
3	Adam Tański	12 January 1991 - 5 December 1991	None	Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
4	Gabriel Janowski	23 December 1991 - 8 April 1993	Polish People's Party - People's Agreement	Jan Olszewski, Waldemar Pawlak, Hanna Suchocka
	Janusz Byliński (acting)	8 April 1993 - July, 1993	Conservative People's Party	Hanna Suchocka
	Jacek Janiszewski (acting)	July, 1993 - 26 October 1993	People's Christian Party	Hanna Suchocka
5	Andrzej Śmietanko	26 October 1993 - 1 March 1995	Polish People's Party	Waldemar Pawlak
6	Roman Jagieliński	4 March 1995 - 10 April 1997	Polish People's Party	Józef Oleksy, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
7	Jarosław Kalinowski	24 April 1997 - 17 October 1997	Polish People's Party	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
8	Jacek Janiszewski	31 October 1997 - 26 March 1999	Conservative People's Party	Jerzy Buzek
9	Artur Balazs	26 March 1999 - 19 October 1999	Conservative People's Party	Jerzy Buzek

Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development (1999-present)

No.	Name	Term of Offices	Party	Served under
1	Artur Balazs	19 October 1999 - 19 October 2001	Conservative People's Party	Jerzy Buzek
2	Jarosław Kalinowski	19 October 2001 - 3 March 2003	Polish People's Party	Leszek Miller
3	Adam Tański	3 March 2003 - 2 July 2003	None	Leszek Miller
4	Wojciech Olejniczak	2 July 2003 - 31 May 2005	Democratic Left Alliance	Leszek Miller, Marek Belka
5	Józef Jerzy Pilarczyk	31 May 2005 - 31 October 2005	None	Marek Belka
6	Krzysztof Jurgiel	31 October 2005 - 5 May 2006	Law and Justice	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
7	Andrzej Lepper	5 May 2006 - 22 September 2006	Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Jarosław Kaczyński
	Jarosław Kaczyński (acting)	22 September 2006 - 16 October 2006	Law and Justice	Jarosław Kaczyński
8	Andrzej Lepper	16 October 2006 - 9 July 2007	Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland	Jarosław Kaczyński
	Jarosław Kaczyński (acting)	9 July 2007 - 31 July 2007	Law and Justice	Jarosław Kaczyński
9	Wojciech Mojzesowicz	31 July 2007 - 16 November 2007	Law and Justice	Jarosław Kaczyński
10	Marek Sawicki	16 November 2007 – 26 July 2012	Polish People's Party	Donald Tusk
	Donald Tusk (acting)	26 July 2012 - 31 July 2012	Civic Platform	Donald Tusk
11	Stanisław Kalemba	31 July 2012 - 17 March 2014	Polish People's Party	Donald Tusk
12	Marek Sawicki	17 March 2014 – present	Polish People's Party	Donald Tusk

External links

• Ministry web page in English, retrieved on 21 September 2012.
• Country Report on Poland, European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture, July 2002, Retrieved 17 December 2007.