Research conducted by the Department includes, among others, the following areas:

• research on markets for basic agri-food products, mainly in the balance approach;
• evaluation of development trends in basic elements of domestic and international agri-food markets, i.e. supply, demand and prices;
• monitoring and evaluation of price trends in the marketing chain of the domestic agri-food sector;
• evaluation of integration between the domestic agri-food market and the EU and global markets;
• assessment of the evolution of foreign trade in agri-food products and its significance in the market balance of basic agri-food products;
• econometric evaluation of agricultural policy tools in the context of changes in economic welfare.