The paper analyzes merchandise and especially agrarian trade of Visegrad (V4) countries. It especially analyzes their mutual trade relations. The main aim is to identify changes in the agricultural sector which have happened during the last decade and to compare differences existing in the area...

The accession of Poland to the European Union turned out to be beneficial for the Polish agriculture as well as for Polish food processing plants. On the contrary to the previous anxiety, the Polish market was not flooded with the merchandise from the European Union countries. Similarly, a mass...

Price relations between production inputs nad agricultural commodities were analyzed. The collected material proved that an unfavourable price relations for agriculture takes place. Favourable price relations were obserwed only in 1996 and 2004. At the first stage of integration with Europen...

The situation on the fruit market seemed particularly difficult in 2007 considering two events which took place almost at the same time. First concerns the reform of the fruit market planned by the European Commission for 2008-2013, second involves the estimation of losses and consequence of...

This paper analyses the competitiveness of fruit and vegetable producers. Research was carried out as an attempt to identify the variables that determine companies’ ability to achieve a competitive advantage. The results of qualitative research are presented in the paper. Interdependence of...

The paper presents an estimation of the Polish food industry's attractiveness and the implications of competition strategy. Special attention was paid to the choice of marketing strategy options for big and small companies. For typology marketing strategy a new methodological approach,...

This paper highlights the current status of organic farming in Poland, and identifies problems faced by organic food producers. The article presents the distribution of organic farms by acreage in Poland, pointing to their fragmentation and unused labour resources. Attention was also given to...

The paper presents the concept of econometric models for predicting the level of prices of raw milk in New Zealand, based on the prices of SMP, butter and cheddar cheese, as the products strongly correlated with the prices of raw milk. The article also states that the prices of basic products...

Sugar is considered as one of the first global commodities in the economic history of the world. The relations of supply and demand in the world have had a considerable influence on the development of local markets. In effect of the EU sugar market regime reform, both the European and the...

Milk quotas are a basic tool of the dairy market regime regulation in the EU. An abolishment of the quotas in 2015 will trigger considerable but positive changes in the market conditions. Limitation of supply, which in fact is a very strong intervention in the market fundamentals, has a negative...