Price monitoring of the agricultural markets in Poland

Integrated Agricultural Market Information System (IAMIS)

Roma 19/12/2012

Adam PACHNICKIChief SpecialistMinistry of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentPoland

Institutions which monitor prices on agri-food market in Poland

• Central Statistical Office – provide official statistical data on the monthly basis.

• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – monitor prices in the most important agricultural markets on the weekly basis.

Central Statistical Office – scope of the price monitoring in the agri-food market

• Average procurement prices of major agricultural products

• Average marketplace prices received by farmers on marketplaces

• Producer prices of selected food products.

• Retail prices of selected foodstuffs by voivodship.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

– Integrated Agricultural Market Information System (IAMIS)

• Average purchase prices of major agricultural products

• Average marketplace prices received by farmers on marketplaces

• Average selling prices of some agri-food products

Who conducts the Market Information System (IAMIS) in Poland?

The Department of Agricultural Markets

The Unit of Market Information and Agricultural Statistics

(14 employees)responsible mainly for:- conducting agricultural market surveys (15 markets under surveys),- work out detailed information for Top Officials and other Departments in our Ministry- regularly publishing market reports & analysis (weekly or monthly),- sending information to the EU Commission.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Is it OBLIGATORY to send data to the IAMIS?

Entrepreneurs who sell or buy agri-food products, brokerage firms, warehouses and businessmen who are running commodities exchange are obliged to transfer market data, free of charge….

(Art.4 ACT on agriculture market surveys of 30 March 2001)

Markets included in IAMIS

1. Cereals market (grains, flour, bran, coarse meal)

2. Pork market (meat, processed meat, live animals)

6. Dairy Products market (milk, butter, powder milk, cheeses, sour and sweet cream, yogurts, kefir, condensed milk, powder whey)

7. Eggs market (consumption eggs),

8. Fruits & Vegetables market

3. Beef & veal market (meat, processed meat, live animals)

5. Poultry market (meat, live animals)

4. Mutton market (live animals)

continue ….

9. Flowers market (cut roses and carnation)

10. Sugar market (white sugar)

11. Oil plants market (rape seeds, rape oil, rapeseed cake)

12. Animal feeding stuffs market (for poultry, pigs, milk cow)

13. Hop market (dried hop cones)

15. Tobacco market (tobacco leaves)

14. Organic products market (eggs)

1. Entrepreneurs buying or selling agricultural and food products,

SOURCES of information

• Flourmills, Feed mills, Elevators, Slaughterhouses, Creameries, Fruit-vegetable processing plants, Others

2. Wholesale markets (flowers, fruits & vegetables)

3. Advisory Centre for Agriculture And Rural Development (cereals, live animals, vegetables)

4. Groups of Producers , Agricultural Chambers, Gardening Cooperatives (fruits & vegetables)

5. Commodity Exchanges, Brokerage firms (cereals, meat, sugar, powder milk)

How does the market information system work?

CENTRAL DATA BASE

DATA SOURCE

EXPERTS

INTERNET

data verification

reports publishing

BENEFICIARIES OF INFORMATION

THE MINISTRYOF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL

DEVELOPMENT

Entrepreneurs,…

Examples of the internet forms

Website: http://www.minrol.gov.pl/pol/Rynki-rolne/Zintegrowany-System-Rolniczej-Informacji-Rynkowej/

Available for all for free

Cereals weekly report - examples

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

Food price monitoring – examples of price analysis

Data source: Central Statistical Office

POLAND

THANK YOU

MERCI

DZIĘKUJĘ

GRAZIE