@article{Franic:10030,
      recid = {10030},
      author = {Franic, Ramona and Kumric, Ornella},
      title = {Sugar sector in Croatia: competitive or not?},
      address = {2006},
      number = {736-2016-50826},
      series = {Seminar Paper},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The sugar sector is small in agricultural sector,  occupying 1.5% of the cultivable land area
and accounting  for approximately 1.2% of agricultural GDP (excluding  processing which probably
accounts for a further 1%). It  does, however, account for 6.5% of all budgetary payments  to
agriculture, showing its disproportionate dependence on  taxpayers' money. Sugar production in
Croatia is  characterized by high production costs, struggling with a  strong competition at the world
market. Despite the results  of the competitiveness study, in which the DRC calculation  showed that
sugar production is not internationally  competitive, one of the basic characteristics of our  foreign
trade in sugar till 2003 was high exports. Sharp  shift in the EU sugar policy will result in sugar  price
decrease due to the WTO rules, which will affect the  Croatian sugar industry. Therefore, Croatia will
have to  apply measures for decreasing production costs and  increasing production, with the final
goal of price  decrease for about 20%. For these reasons, it will be  necessary to strive for the quota at
the level of average  production of three Croatian sugar - plants.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10030},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.10030},
}