EJPAU 2007. Czernyszewicz E. CHANGES IN FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS CONSUMPTION IN THE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC GROUP OF HOUSEHOLDS DURING 1990-2005

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2007
Volume 10
Issue 4

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Horticulture

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Czernyszewicz E. 2007. CHANGES IN FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS CONSUMPTION IN THE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC GROUP OF HOUSEHOLDS DURING 1990-2005, EJPAU 10(4), #37.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume10/issue4/abs-37.html

CHANGES IN FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS CONSUMPTION IN THE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC GROUP OF HOUSEHOLDS DURING 1990-2005

Eugenia Czernyszewicz
Department of Horticultural Economics, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland

ABSTRACT

The research has been conducted based on the data from household budget surveys by Central Statistical Office for the years 1990-2005. The changes in the level and the structure, the dynamics and the trends in the consumption of fresh fruits and preserved fruits in households belonging to various socioeconomic groups have been analysed. The aggregated data concerning household expenditures concerned the following groups of expenditures: fruits and preserved fruits, including fruits, exotic fruits and preserved fruits. Significant changes in the consumption of fruit and processed fruit in the examined period were observed. The consumption of fruit and processed fruit increased and the structure of consumption changed. The share of apples, which dominated in the structure of consumption, decreased from 54% to 46%. The trend in consumption of fruit (except for apples) and processed fruit was upward but the growth rate was not the same for different groups of fruit. Individual social-economic groups differed in the level and the structure of consumption of fresh fruit and processed fruit. Monthly consumption of fruit fluctuated between 3.32 kg per capita and 4.03 kg per capita. The share of expenditures on fruit and processed fruit in expenditures on food decreased in the examined period from 5.64% to 5.37%.

Key words: fresh fruit, fruit products, expenditure, consumption.

Eugenia Czernyszewicz
Department of Horticultural Economics,
University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
58 Leszczynskiego Street, 20-068 Lublin, Poland
phone/fax: (+48) 81 533 82 46
email: eugenia.czernyszewicz@up.lublin.pl

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