Problemy koopetycji producentów i hodowców bydła oraz trzody chlewnej w Polsce

In the paper external and internal circumstances of cooperation of pig and dairy agricultural producers and breeders in branch organizations were presented. The findings indicate a need of adjustment activities to open associations of producers towards international markets and quicker response for changes of customer aspirations. Members of surveyed organizations are convinced of necessity of progress in the scope of productivity, product quality, communication, marketing and advisory or intellectual property rights. One can prove that endogenous factors strongly determine behaviour of producer organizations and in Middle and Eastern European countries, including Poland, reasons of keeping independency of manufacturers and also limited mutual trust are important barriers of modification of activity of analyzed unions. A necessity of change of surveyed branch unions on the base of defined strategies is a very important conclusion in a view of agricultural producer coopetition development.