The Croatian context
Introduction
Besides the positive factors, the globalization brings with itself many negative factors and consequences as well, and one of them is certainly the prevalence of products sold globally than locally produced and consumed ones. This reflects the fact that for local products is more difficult to come up to the consumer, for a variety of reasons: higher prices, the market is not developed enough, little awareness about products, consumers uninformed and poorly educated.
In Croatia, the importing costs of food increases year by year, while hundreds of hectares of fertile land is covered with weeds and bushes. At the same time, the favourable climatic conditions make Croatia a flagship in tourism, attracting tourists, who are served with dishes of meat and vegetables imported from abroad. Another alarming fact is that the products exported are usually first class quality goods, because otherwise you could not even sell them on the European market, but the foods we import are very often not even close to such a high quality( Source: http:// www. jutarnji. hr / jedemo-tude-smece--hrvatska-izvoziprvoklasnu-robu--a-uvozi-stare-jabuke-i-smrznuto-meso / 1209460 /).
The graph below shows the increase in imports, which occurred from 2002 to 2012 for the goods, specified on the left:
IMPORT OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES( 2002 / 2012)
IMPORT OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES( 2002 / 2012)
Type of food |
Year |
Quantity
tons)
|
( in |
Value( in Dollars) |
Countries of origin |
Potatoes
2002 12.300 4.700.000 2012 23.000 12.300.000
Netherlands, Cyprus, Germany
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