COMPETITIVENESS OF POLISH AGRI-FOOD EXPORT ON WORLD AND V4 MARKET

Abstract

At work, an issue of the competitiveness of Polish agri-food exports was analysed. Purpose of the study was to estimate the level of competitiveness of the Polish export commodity groups related to the agri-food sector on the markets of the Visegrad Group countries and the world market and an indication of the groups and markets with potential for development in the future as also those losing market shares. In the framework of the implementation of the aim, it was decided to make the indicator analysis and estimate the comparative advantage by using a RCA ratio and absolute advantage using AGE. Polish export in the year 2015 measured indicator of RCA, was competitive on the world market in the case of animals and products of animal origin and food and beverages. RCA < 1 was for plant and products of plant origin. In the case of animals Polish exports grew at the same rate as world exports, in the case of plants were large fluctuations in AGE. The best situation was in a group of food and beverages, where AGE in most years were above zero.