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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 )

Potatoes

2002 12.300 4.700.000 2012 23.000 12.300.000

Netherlands , Cyprus , Germany

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