Yeah, I admit, it's hard to figure these things anecdotally. Our next door neighbor near Kazimierz plows with a horse and I do see that occasionally elsewhere. Things like hand tools, wooden wagons with rubber tires, organic fertilizer, scarecrows, free range animals and small family farms are also things I see frequently. Tractor ownership seems definitely less than 100%. From what I understand, there are some areas of the Lublin Voivodeship that are especially poor and this poverty might be highly localized.

I'm contrasting this with the USA where farming practices make use of a lot of highly specialized machines and huge scale. Actually many of the farmers I know in the USA are quite well off due to a combination of subsidies and very large operations.