Consumption of foodstuffs in Estonia and other candidate countries of EU
2003
Akke, T. (Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu (Estonia))
The present study takes a look at the consumption of foodstuffs in Estonia and other candidate countries of EU in the last ten years of the previous century. Consumption is mostly influenced by preferences, incomes and prices of the population. Foodstuffs consumption is in addition to foodstuffs prices influenced by prices of other products and services. Political and economic changes which took place in East European countries at the end of the last century had also the effect on foodstuffs consumption. On transition to market economy the incomes decreased, the prices increased. This led to the change in consumption structure, first of all to the decrease in consumption of more expensive foodstuffs. Mostly meat and dairy products consumption is being observed because their consumtion is more influenced by incomes and prices and their consumption level reflects the purchasing power of population quite well. In the 90-ies meat consumption decreased almost in all candidate countries. The differences between the states were quite big. Meat consumption decreased most of all in Lithuania (18 per cent) and Latvia (50 per cent). However, consumption increased a little in Slovak Republic and in Slovenia even 82 per cent. By the end of the 90-ies the consumption of meat had increased indeed but it had not reached the level of pre-transition period, not speaking about the level of EU countries. Milk consumption also decreased in most of the states- 42 per cent in Estonia, 26 per cent in Slovak Republic and 20 per cent in Lithuania. But milk consumption, on the contrary increased in Romania by 48 per cent and Slovenia by 27 per cent. By the end of the 90-ies milk consumption had not yet started to increase in several states
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