The paper examines profitability and market performance of small-scale fish traders selected randomly from a cross-section of nine fish markets in four districts in Central Uganda. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire which was designed to solicit information on traders?...

Seafood consumption in the U.S. has increased over the period 1990 to 2003. A large percentage of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported. The most important seafood products imported to the U.S. are shrimp, Atlantic salmon, tilapia, catfish, crayfish, mussels and a mixture of mollusks. In...

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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The aim of the paper was to analyse spatial price transmission in the wheat market in Poland and Germany. The analysis was conducted with the use of weekly milling and feed wheat price series and cointegration framework. The results confirm high linkage between prices in Poland and Germany as...

The main objective of this article is to evaluate the agriculture diversification in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and eastern Germany based on selected characteristics of production potential.. The NUTS 2 level was adopted for the analysis. Agriculture diversification was examined using the...

Ensuring high quality and food safety has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy both at the European Union and individual countries within it, including Poland. Therefore, in the Rural Development Programme for 2007–2013 has been proposed in Measure 132 to a special...

Relative cross-country price volatility increases business risk and distorts efficient sector-level investment allocation. In order to answer the questions of “if” and “how” market structures affect relative price volatility, and using annual data from 14 manufacturing branches in 27 EU...