Poland Agricultural Machinery Market
Polish agriculture accounts for 2.6% of Poland’s GDP, and has relatively low productivity and is fragmented. There are 1.4 million farms in Poland and the average size of a Polish farm is about 10 ha. The majority of Polish farms is less than 2 ha, and there are only 1000 farms larger than 500 ha. The structure of Polish farming is changing, and the number of farms larger than 30 ha is increasing. The country’s ag economy is making on-going progress toward larger-scale commercial farming and greater productivity and is shifting away from subsistence agriculture and labor-intensive farming.
Poland is a significant European producer of a diverse range of agricultural products. The country is the EU’s largest producer of poultry and apples, the second-largest grower of potatoes (after Germany) and ranks third in sugar beets, rapeseed and pork. Other major crops include wheat, rye, triticale, oats, cruciferous vegetables, carrots, onions, and cherries. Wheat is the country’s largest grain crop, but corn production is growing. Production of milk and dairy products is also significant.
Poland’s production of agricultural machinery is quite extensive and follows major segments: crops cultivating equipment, tractors and agricultural trailers, live-stock equipment and poultry-keeping machinery. Poland’s export of agricultural machinery and equipment reached $1.9 billion in 2018, while imports totaled $2.8 billion. Poland’s import of agricultural machinery and equipment from the U.S. reached USD 42 million and constituted 1.4% of total Poland’s import in this category. Major equipment imported from the U.S. included: mowers and power equipment, tractors, poultry-keeping machinery and parts, parts for harvesting and threshing machinery, and agriculture sprayers and dispensers.
In the coming years, demand for precision agricultural technologies is expected to increase as Polish farms will grow and become technologically advanced. Technology that will enable greater productivity and quality control in fresh produce, pork and poultry production will also be needed. Pork, poultry and fodder machinery and equipment present opportunity for U.S. exporters. The increasing number of large dairy farms in Poland may create opportunities for suppliers of various milking machines and robots.
As an EU member state, Poland has duty-free access to the rest of the 28-country single market, and to EU rural development funds. Polish farmers have made extensive use of these funds in modernizing their operations and this is a driving force for Poland’s agriculture transformation and upgrading.
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