SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT OF LITHUANIA

The research problem lays upon disclosing the importance of role of social entrepreneurship in rural development of Lithuania. The paper thė tendencies of social entrepreneurship in Lithuania, to present successful examples of such business for providing recommendations how to improve sit-uation in rural areas in terms of social entrepreneurship development. Lithuanian government has made some steps towards development of social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, and social in-novation, but the a lot remains to be improved. The roots of family business go back only above 20 years and have rather poor traditions in Lithuania. It is tightly related to rural areas especially than agriculture economies are acting as family farms with potential of young social businesses

Žemės ūkio verslo rizikos vertinimo modeliai

Santr. anglBibliogr.: p. 70 (6 pavad.)Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Risk Evaluation and Management of Innovative Plant Growing Business in Lithuania

It is well established that in business risk is unavoidable due to the fact that business environment is ever changing. Because of the countless environmental factors, the influence of which is not only expressed by consecutive cause- consequence chain, it is hard to predict business results. Business environment can change very rapidly. Meanwhile it is very hard to take rapid investment, financial, industrial decisions or it costs relatively much, especially then it is based on innovation implementation in agriculture. Business decisions in agriculture are made under even more complicated conditions due to specific domain restrictions – the process of production is relatively long, natural factors, which are little influenced, a re a p art o f i t. S uppression o f t he l atter, minimization of their influence is a hard to solve task and remains of the utmost importance in Lithuanian agriculture. The risk in agriculture is mainly related to several spheres. First, plantgrowing farmers face considerable natural uncertainty and risk (Hao Aimin, 2010). This uncertainty and risk are due to the uncontrollable elements, such as weather, plague of insects, and they could be considered as key factors in this kind of activity. Second, there is another kind of uncertainty and risk in agriculture defined as dependable on market conditions. Third is family risk or in other words risk related with labour force. Fourth, agriculture policy uncertainty and risk plays an important role in plant-growing business in Lithuania. Of course, the policy issues are tightly related to ongoing in European Union (EU) levelVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Investicijų įtaka žemės ūkio įmonių veiklos restruktūrizavimui

Santr. angl., lietBibliogr.: p. 54 (3 pavad.)Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Žemės ūkio rizikos valdymo fondą kuriant

Bioekonomikos plėtros fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

Lithuanian private farms' activity and problems of its development

With Lithuania having joined the European Union (EU), possibilities for developing activities in a big and active market emerged and provision of agricultural entities with financial resources improved. Like in the majority of developed countries, in Lithuania, agricultural activities became profitable activities. The aim of the research presented in the article is to analyse changes in farmers’ agricultural activities in Lithuania, assess the support allocated to them, identify the key problems for further agricultural development and offer ways of solution. In Lithuania, famers’ manage the bigger part of the land intended for agricultural purposes. Farmers’ farms are the key producers of agricultural and food products in Lithuania. Almost all national crop and dairy production is concentrated in these sectors. Meat and egg production occupies a smaller share, but the production intensity in these sector is lower than in agricultural companies. After Lithuania joined the EU, farms and other agricultural entities received huge support from the EU and national budget. Before the EU accession, they were allocated the amount of LTL 602.2 million under SAPARD programme, and more than LTL 4.3 billion in 2004–2006 under the General Programming Document. The 2007–2013 Programme for Rural Development provides for LTL 7.7 billion of support for rural and agricultural development within the period of seven years. After the restoration of independence, agricultural entities had good conditions for development, however, in recent years, farmers and other agricultural entities have been facing a great deal of problems impeding further development of their activities

Socialaus verslumo aplinka Lietuvoje

Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Lithuanian private farms’ activity and problems of its development

The changes of the activity of Lithuanian private farms after the joining of the EU are analysed in the article. The analysis of the main agricultural production amounts as well as the number and size of private farms are presented in the article. The given support was evaluated, factors influencing the efficiency of farming were revealed and the main problems of the private farms activity development were identifiedVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Regioninės specializacijos Europos Sąjungoje vertinimo metodika ir jos pritaikymas Lietuvos regionalizavimui

Santr. anglBibliogr.: p. 13 (4 pavad.)Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

Evaluation of the plant growing business in Lithuania

Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij