The paper discusses selected aspects of vegetable oils production competitiveness in a global context. Three major vegetable oils (palm, soybean, rapeseed) were analyzed. Their raw material was discussed in the terms of crop yield, oil and meal content as well as meal and oil yields. The levels...

On the sugar market exists strong international competitiveness. In the European Union sugar industry is the part of the basic branches agricultural processing industry. From the beginning of European Union until the end of the last century all members were the main world sugar producers. During...

The aim of the paper was to assess the share of services in the production costs of in Polish and German agriculture in comparison with all the EU countries. The analysis was based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). The research covered services according to the regions of the European...

The purpose of the article was comparing diverse resources of production factors in farming and displaying relations between them, as well as the effectiveness of their exploitation in agricultural regions of the European Union (EU-25). An average arable farm was analyzed in 122 regions,...

The aim of the paper was to display the agricultural material supply, global production and gross value added in agriculture in the EU countries. In higher developed countries the sectors providing means of production and providing services (sphere I) as well as food and fodder processing...

General information about Polish agri-food trade with six selected EU-15 countries after Polish accession is presented. Number of population in the chosen countries is similar and they have a high developed agriculture. The trade with these countries has a different turnover volume, value,...

The volume of international trade and the share of foreign capital in companies as well as their dynamics in 2005 and 2010 have been analysed. It enabled a verification of the hypotheses on changes, forms and levels of internationalisation. The process of internationalisation depends on the size...

This paper makes an analysis of changes in both level and structure of rural production in Poland and in other EU countries. An author compared the year 2011 and 2004. An analysis showed that changes in Polish agriculture have the same direction like in EU. In surveyed period the growth of...

An analysis, based on empirical data for the period of 1990-2011, presents changes in production, consumption and foreign trade in pig meat and its products. Since 2008 Poland has been a net importer of pig meat and its products. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono zmiany w produkcji,...

The work is focusing on selected effects of changes in sugar market in Poland after the integration with the EU. Sugar production in Poland between years 2003/4 and 2009/10 was reduced by about 15.3% and production limits by about 7.5%. Integration of Poland with the EU and implementation of the...