Multifunctional rural areas, multifunctional agriculture and multifunctional farms deliver many various marketable and non-marketable goods for society (including public goods). In recent years, discussion of the issue of public goods provided by rural areas, agriculture and farms became...

Integration with the European Union allowed the restructuring of the Polish fishing sector on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to EU funding, the fishing fleet was reduced and partly modernized. No new fishing vessel was entered into operation. The restructuring of the fishing fleet was carried...

The paper presents the state of the EU sugar market and the sugar beet market after the second year of their reform. The main purpose, i.e. reducing the sugar production by ca. 1/3 has been practically achieved. For Poland it means that from exporter our country, so far net exporter, will become...

The aim of this article is to indicate problems connected with the process of building a traditional food products market. Special attention is paid to its weakness ensuing from its small capacity caused by poor knowledge of traditional products among Polish consumers. On the other hand the...

The paper positions Polish agriculture on the background of agriculture in the EU(25) member states in years 2004-2005. The analysis has the aim of selecting its strengths and weaknesses and form a basis for constructing the strategy of its development in the integrating Union. The geographical...

Poland is one of the largest global producers and particularly exporters of apples. The export is of great importance to domestic producers of these fruits. The objective of the article was to assess Poland’s competitiveness in world trade in apples in the years 2003–2013. In connection with...

According to the latest National Agricultural Census 2010, in comparison with the previous one of 2002, the number of farms decreased by almost one fourth but is still very big, which results from a large number of small farms. For this reason, more than half of land resources belong to small...

Long term analyzes of the ornamental plants’ production and foreign trade in Poland during the last 15 years have been done to show the influence of our integration with UE on Polish floricultural production. It was found that in spite of the high tariffs the import of floricultural products...

More than 100 countries in the world produce tobacco. The major producers are China, India, Brazil, the United States, Turkey, Malawi and Zimbabwe. They together produce over 80% of the world’s tobacco. In fact China alone accounts for over 35% of world production. FAO has forecasted that...

Cocoa belongs to the group of one of the most valuable commodities in the world. Most production of cocoa beans takes place in the African countries in the Equatorial “Cocoa Belt”. However, most processing of raw products is made in Western European countries. Poland is a substantial...