AGR I CULTURE and AGRICULTURE and FOOD ECONOMY in POLAND F OOD ECO N O MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT M MINISTERSTWO ROLNICTWA I ROZWOJU WSI Y ul. Wspólna 30, 00-930 Warszawa tel.: +48 22 623 10 00, fax: +48 22 623 27 50 in e-mail:
[email protected] www.minrol.gov.pl P OL AN ISSN 1427-0757 D MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURE AND FOOD ECONOMY IN POLAND Collective work edited by the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics Warsaw 2015 Agriculture and Food Economy in Poland 3 Contents FOREWORD . 7 POLAND – GENERAL INFORMATION . 9 Selected information about the economic situation of Poland in 2014 . 11 AGRICULTURE . 13 General description . 13 Agricultural land resources and structure of its use . 15 Factors shaping the production-economic agriculture situation . 19 Agriculture supply in production means . 20 Fertilizer consumption in Poland . 20 Consumption of mineral fertilizers in EU member states . 21 Plant protection product sales . 21 Production and sale of seeding material . 22 Agricultural Production Value and Price Relations . 23 Farmers’ income . 25 Food consumption . 27 AGRICULTURE IN REGIONS . 29 PLANT PRODUCTION, SELECTED MARKETS AND PROCESSING BRANCHES . 37 Improvement of national sources of vegetable protein . 37 Return of old varieties . 39 Integrated plant production . 40 Seed production market . 41 Cereal market . 42 Sugar market . 42 Potato market . 43 Rapeseed market . 44 Tobacco and tobacco product market . 44 Humulus market . 45 Dry Fodder market . 45 Fruit market . 46 Vegetable market . 47 Fruit and vegetable market organization level in Poland . 48 ANIMAL PRODUCTION, SELECTED MARKETS .