Coupled support for sugar beet in the European Union: Does it lead to market distortions?

In the last two decades, privatisation has been slowly progressing in Poland. I examine the case of beet-sugar factories in western Poland, which were privatised between 1995 and 2003. As this process was coming to an end, reform for the European Common Agricultural Policy was implemented and, after Poland joined the European Union, the European sugar market reform started to take shape as a result of a global trade dispute on subsidised sugar prices. I recount the story of sugar factory privatisation and multiple reform processes from the viewpoint of sugar beet farmers, factory managers, and local rural experts from the province of Wielkopolska in western Poland. These accounts will show how sugar market reforms affected the aftermath of privatisation and factory close-downs, and how these experiences have prompted local people to think of being Polish within Europe, but reluctantly European within a global framework of sugar trade.

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EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF FARMS IN THE BASIC MARKETS OF PLANT AND ANIMAL PRODUCTION IN POLAND IN THE FIRST DECADE AFTER ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0010.3212 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol XIX (3) ◽

pp. 34-40

Author(s):

Dariusz Czakowski

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

Beef Cattle ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Individual Factors ◽

The European Union ◽

Root Crops ◽

The Cost ◽

Chicken Eggs ◽

Efficiency And Productivity

The article presents the most important statistics and indicators related to the development of basic economic and financial categories of agricultural holdings, such as the productivity of individual factors, the level of profitability and the cost of production. Considerations have been made for agricultural holdings specializing in the production of basic agricultural products such as: cereals and oil, root crops (including potatoes and sugar beet), fruits, vegetables under the cover, beef cattle, pork, poultry, cow’s milk, chicken eggs. In turn, the comparison of the economic and financial results achieved using the Hellwig’s pattern of development allowed us to determine which types of farms were most effective during the post–accession period.

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Changes in Agricultural Markets in Poland following its Accession to the European Union

Management ◽

10.1515/manment-2017-0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 138-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andrzej Czyżewski ◽

Dariusz Czakowski

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Trade Balance ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

The European Union ◽

Food Sector ◽

Commodity Production ◽

Real Purchasing ◽

The Eu

Summary This article attempts to determine the most significant tendencies and changes observed in Poland’s core markets of agricultural products, which occurred during the period preceding Poland’s accession to the European Union (1994-2003) and after the accession (2004-2013). The key markets of agricultural products include markets with the largest value of commodity production during the analysed period, such as cereals, potatoes, sugar beet, rapeseed, fruit, vegetables, pork, beef and poultry, cows’ milks and eggs. The development of domestic production, consumption and real purchasing prices were observed and compared in order to achieve the main objective. The research was preceded by the characterisation of macroeconomic and resource conditionalities of agricultural production as well as the trade balance of the Polish agri-food sector. On the basis of the conducted studies, there were singled out three groups of markets in which the situation during the period following Poland’s accession to the EU developed in a similar way.

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SUGAR MARKET IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY. CURRENT SITUATION, TRENDS AND PROJECTIONS

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum - Oeconomia ◽

10.22630/aspe.2019.18.4.39 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 5-13

Author(s):

Michał Borychowski ◽

Anna Matuszczak ◽

Sebastian Stępień

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

Agricultural Policy ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

The European Union ◽

Sugar Market ◽

The Common ◽

Intervention Policy ◽

Production Prices ◽

The Eu

The aim of the article is to present the situation of the sugar beet and sugar market in Poland in the context of changes to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, and to present prospects for the development of these markets until 2030. The authors prove that, due to the significance of these markets for the whole agricultural sector, an intervention policy regarding the sugar beet and sugar markets is crucial, which is indicated by various positive economic and environmental effects connected with the functioning of this sector. The necessity for intervention stems also from the observed volatility of production, prices and incomes. The spatial scope of the research encompasses the whole area of Poland by applying a regional approach in some analyses (voivodeships) and a comparison with the Member States of the EU. The analyses cover a period of over 20 years – from 1997/1998 to 2018/2019 – as well as a projection for 2030.

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