Development of fruit industry and fruit supply chains in Poland
2011
Lemanowicz, M., Warsaw Univ. of Life Sciences (Poland) | Krukowski, A., University of Life Sciences in Lublin (Poland)
The development of consumer-driven, efficient, responsive, and innovative supply chains is crucial for the growth of fruit consumption in Europe and for a competitive and sustainable fruit sector. Currently, fruit supply chains are characterised by a relatively low level of consumer orientation and consumer-driven innovations. The awareness of the functioning of supply chains in the European fruit sector should be increased to be able to increase the level of consumer-drivenness, efficiency, and responsiveness of fruit supply chains. The paper aims at presenting the results of a review of fruit supply chains from the fruit industry in Poland. The analysis of supply chains is preceded by a review of fruit consumption, fruit production, trade characteristics, and trends. Moreover, the role of different actors in the functioning of fruit supply chains is presented as well as their quantitative characteristics. A desk research was carried out to present the characteristics of fruit industry in Poland with particular attention to the functioning of supply chains in Poland,. This type of research includes use of general access sources of information. The following sources were used: literature on functioning of supply chains and role of particular actors in a chain, analyses considering the characteristics of fruit industry conducted by various research institutes as well as reports on the current state and development perspectives of the fruit market in Poland. In addition, statistical data from the national statistical office were used for the research purpose.
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