Vine growing and production in global context

Abstract

Research background: The global agri-food complex changed in last years. From global scale point of view agri-food complex must face new challenges in the field of changes of natural conditions and in the field of social and trade relations. Vine growing is due to the specific demands on its production is a suitable representative of these global changes. Purpose of the article: The aim of this paper is to investigate relationship between area of vineyards and its production in context of globalization. Methods: Secondary data were obtained from official information sources. From the point of view of the methodological apparatus, the analysis of time series were used. Based on the selection of a suitable trend function were forecasted following two period. Furthermore, modifications to the data matrix were made. For individual variables, which were compared using appropriate statistical methods. The growth coefficient was determined. The relationship between the variables was investigated. Findings & Value added: Based on the data, there is an obvious degressive trend in vineyards, which could be caused by the European Union standard for maximum planting up to 2 % per year. Wine production fluctuates significantly during monitoring and it is very difficult to determine its trend. In the last decade, there is possible to see an increasing of wine consumption. In future research, the relationship between consumption and production, or the production and overall performance of agriculture as a sector, may be examined.