Members of a Polish family load hay onto a horse-drawn wagon in a village near the towering Tatra Mountains, seen in the background. Nearly one-third of Poland’s residents work in the agricultural sector, and there are some 2 million privately owned farms that occupy 90 percent of the country’s farmland.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Poland: The Hope That Never Dies," January 1988, National Geographic magazine)