NAUKA DLA POLSKI

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Polish Food Technology Platform
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Polish agriculture

• Agricultural land 19,2 mln ha in that
• arable lands 16.3 mln ha
• meadows and pastures 2.9 mln ha
• 3,0 mln farms (average farm area 6.4 ha)

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Agricultural production in Poland
mln ton of EU (25) Cereals 26.9
10.3 Potatoes 11.0 18.5 Sugar beets 11.0
8.8 Rapeseeds 1.4 9.1 Fruits
3.6 10.3 Vegetables 5.3 8.1 Meat
3.4 8.0 Milk 11.9 8.1 Eggs 0.5
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Total value of agricultural production - 10.7 mld
EUR
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Food industry in Poland
Total sold production app. 26 mld EUR 24
share of total industrial production (6 of
GNP) 30 000 enterprises 411 000 employment
(8,4 of total employment in industry)
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Structure of the Polish enterprises in food
sector
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Share of national food industries in EU25
turnover, 2003
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Polish food trade ballance, 2006
Import Export Ballance
(mld EUR) Foodstuff and live
animals 3.07 3.97 0,90 Drinks
0.21 0.17 - 0,04
Total 3.28 4.14 0,86
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Weaknesses of Polish agroindustry

• Lack of strategic development plan for the
  branch
• Small, underinvested farms and processing plants
• Problems with quality control and traceability
  due to
• atomization of production
• Very few cooperative organizations (producers
  groups,
• clusters etc.)
• Traditional, not innovative technologies
  prevailing
• Inadequate technology transfer from RD
  institutions to
• industry,
• low investment in innovative technologies
• Lack of reliable market prognosis no production
  planning,
• high fluctuation of production and prices
• Inadequate marketing and promotion

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Polish Food Technology Platform Organisational
structure
First meeting of a core group January 10th,
2005 Formal launch of the Platform February
10th 2005 In 2006, more than 60 stakeholders
Chairman
Secretariat - legal representative of
PFTP (Dairy Plant MLEKPOL)
Board
Plenary Meeting
Workgroups
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Polish Food Technology Platform main activities

• Initiation of regional and technological
  foresights
• Formulation of RD priorities in the area of
  food
• technology
• Participation in planning workprogramme for
  Polish
• RD Framework Programme,
• Cooperation with regional and state authorities
  in
• planning innovation strategies and
  programmes for
• development
• Tutoring and training Platform members on
  clustering
• and initiation of organization of branch
  clusters
• Initiation of joint RD projects,
• Providing information to Platform members on
• EC Framework Programmes

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PFTP - Location of mayor stakeholders
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Horticultural cluster
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