FORMATION OF REGIONAL WHOLESALE FOOD MARKETS SYSTEM

Abstract

The management structure and the infrastructure of regional wholesale food market, the scheme of agricultural products and foodstuffs movement to the end-consumer are offered. The place of the wholesale market in the system of food supply is defined.

Full Text

The organization of physical distribution plays an essential role in the system of population food supply of any region. Population food supply of any region of the country is defined first of all by the condition of food producing and serving branches. The agricultural commodity producers’ share in the price of agricultural products decreases every year (15–18 %), a considerable part falls at processors, trade and middlemen. In 1990 commercial structures and black money structures had 0.5 % of costs in the final goods price. Today these figures are 25–28 %. The organizational unit of the food resources promotion system from the sphere of their production to the sphere of their final consumption, that provides increase of commodity producers’ share in the final price of agricultural products, is the wholesale food market. The notion of “the wholesale food market” is treated differently in scientific literature. The wholesale food market is a managed and operated system of goods promotion with a proper infrastructure [1; 2].