The paper aims to present how the plant varieties of foreign origin changed their share in the Polish seed market before and after EU accession. Changes in the period 1996-2008 were analyzed. They show that the number of foreign varieties of agricultural species increased significantly. In 1996...

The paper aims to present how the plant breeding financing system in Poland was changing before and after accession to the EU. Before 2004 the plant breeding in Poland was financed from grants from the state budget. Subsidies covered about 71% of breeding costs in 1996, which then decreased to...