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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 1
Written by Joseph Omotoso AJAYI

Agro-entrepreneurs are key to the Nigerian economy as they constitute the majority of the work force, providing food and employment opportunities for more than 60% of the largest black nation on earth. Nigeria’s social media networking system which is the largest in Africa has got its usefulness in many conventional and contemporary applications in the recent times. Social media has become the fastest, cheapest and unrestricted communication and marketing tool of this jet age. This study therefore focused on the use and use intensity of social media networking systems by Nigerian agro-entrepreneurs. The study made use of mainly primary data. Primary data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaires assisted with interview schedules. Field data collection was conducted between June and September, 2014. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select three hundred and sixty (360) respondents across the three (3) highly ICT compliant states (Lagos, Ondo and Oyo). Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression model. The results of the regression model indicate that education, availability of power supply and customer base of the agro-entrepreneurs positively influenced use intensity of social media by the agro-entrepreneurs while age and cost of access data negatively influenced their use intensity of social media.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 1
Written by Karim Mamdouh ABBAS

The present study aims to analyze viability of some applied cost systems. The population of the study is some Egyptian manufacturing firms. The number of received questionnaires was 385. The results indicated that , according to the application extent indicator, the currently cost systems in Egyptian manufacturing firms may be descendingly arranged as follows: Activity Based Costing (ABC) system, Target Costing (TC) system , Resource Consumption Accounting (RCA) system, Activity Based Management (ABM) ,Other systems, Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Value Chain (VC) analysis.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 1
Written by Ion CERTAN, Maria BANARI.

Since its independence Republic of Moldova takes great efforts to align with the big family of the European Union and in July 2014 it has made a huge step towards this by signing the Association Agreement and Free Trade Agreement with the EU. These impose our country to accelerate reforms and take all possible measures in order to reduce the gap of economic and socio-cultural development, adjusting it to the EU standards. One of the most sensible issues is the rural space conservation and further durable development that needs wide types of actions in almost all aspects. In the paper the authors consider what are EU investments for the rural development that will sum up with some conclusions and recommendations to be implemented in the Republic of Moldova.

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