Rural policies at this time focused on agricultural development. In some cases, formerly privately held farms w'ere collectivised (i.e. state farms were established), in others, land was parcelled out into small farms. Therefore, while Poland did not have the same scale of farm collectivisation as seen in other communist states (e.g. the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine), the agricultural sector was embedded within the socialist economy, which provided low but stable sources of income for farmers.