Polish Food at SIAL CHINA 2016

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The Polish agro-food industry uses the world's top technology, and meets the highest safety and quality standards. It is for these reasons that Polish food products successfully compete on the global market. Not only do they have good nutritional value and taste, but are also aesthetically pleasing, functional and affordable. The Polish food sector has also proved its capability to adapt to the changing market and consumer needs.

Poland's involvement with the EU has had a major effect on the development of the Polish food industry. It has given the country's food producers unrestricted access to the EU market of over 500 million consumers. The rapid growth of food exports due to the competition (in both quality and price) of the agro-food sector on the European market has become the most important factor in the development of this sector in Poland.

Poland is an EU leader in the production of poultry, apples, blackcurrants, button mushrooms, raspberries and carrot. Poland is the EU's third biggest producer of cereals, sugar, potatoes and onions, fourth biggest producer of milk and one of the Europe's major producers of cheese, butter and rapeseed. Fruit juices of apple, sour cherry, blackcurrant, strawberry and chokeberry – are Poland's flagship exports. Poland is the world's leader in the production and exportation of deep-frozen fruit and vegetables (respectively 75% and 60% of production is exported). Other staple Polish exports are confectionery (sweets, chocolate products, pastry), grain mill products (flour, groats, cereals, bran, muesli, pasta) alcoholic beverages (Polish vodka, meads, beer and liquors).

Over the past 26 years Poland's food sector has achieved a spectacular development and the is every indication that it will continue. In 2002 Poland transformed from a net importer into an increasingly important net exporter of food products. In the years between 2000 and 2014, the value of exports has increased nearly sevenfold, while the value of imports has increased over four times. As a result, in 2014 the trade surplus in sales of food products exceeded 6.5 billion euros. Despite growing competition and turbulence on the market, such as the Russian import ban, Poland's foreign trade in agro-food products is growing and the 2015 estimates are looking bright.

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