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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Sorin IONITESCU, Rafael Heitor Correia de MELO, Dorina POPOVICI, Aura CONCI

The education environment proposed in this paper aims to motivate, train and support people by increasing the competitiveness of young, mostly inexperienced people, on the job market. For this purpose, a 3D virtual world will be created as a tool to help to teach entrepreneurship through a social game focused on the business domain (Biz4Fun). Everyone having access to Biz4Fun will be able to interact with many kinds of multimedia content without an established predefined plan. Videos and presentations about successful start-ups are among these contents. The environment will also offer the possibility to all learners to be connected simultaneously and to interact with each other in order to exchange information, life experiences and documents. Biz4Fun will create and publish courses content and open educational resources (OER), supporting young practitioners in learning topics related to business and acquiring the skills needed to establish and successfully manage a business company. The next step will be to construct the virtual world, composed of knowledge areas comprising topics related to entrepreneurship. The Biz4Fun project has applications suitable for helping youth to develop start-ups and grow their business in agriculture and offers them innovative tools for learning and training to become successful entrepreneurs.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Anton TRETIAK, Oleksandra KOVALYSHYN, Nataliia TRETIAK

The article analyzes the change in the content of mobile phosphorus in the arable and subarable horizons of southern chernozem with systematic fertilization in the conditions of the Chernozem Steppe of Ukraine. Thus, the efficiency of using phosphate fertilizers is closely related to the absorption of phosphorus by the soil. If the absorption capacity is full, the additional doses of phosphorus that are supplied remain mobile and are easily used by plants. However, the absorbed phosphorus, under certain conditions, is able to pass into the soil solution, to acquire mobility. The study showed that the absolute content of mobile phosphorus increases with increasing of phosphate fertilizers doses. Its highest content (8.8 mg/100 g) was observed with the mineral system of fertilizers - the average annual increase was 0.16 mg/100 g of soil. With the systematic use of phosphate fertilizers, the following dependence is observed: the higher the rate of their application, the higher the content of mobile compounds in the soil, the lower the payback of a unit of active substance by the harvest increase and vice versa.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Kurnia Artha MULYADEWI, Roostita L BALIA, Lilis SURYANINGSIH

The aim of this paper is to study the opinion on the use of non-traditional cereals (barley and einkorn) in three different countries (Bulgaria, Macedonia and Croatia). In Bulgaria 81.90% were men and the other 18.10% were women. In Macedonia, 33% of men and 67% of women completed the survey, while in Croatia 14% of the respondents were men and the remaining 86% were women. More than half of the respondents consume cereals and cereal products. Those that consume cereals believe that whole grains have a positive impact on health. Those who do not consume cereals, do so because they are on a diet or have intolerance to cereals. In Bulgaria and Croatia, the reason listed for not consuming cereals is dieting. The most frequently consumed cereal product is bread. In Bulgaria, following closely after bread are cookies, and in Croatia and Macedonia, muesli are second used products. People from Croatia, Bulgaria and Macedonia know that barley is used in beer production, but a few people know for bread, cookies and other bakery products makes with barley flour. More than 1/4 of the respondents in Croatia and Macedonia do not know about einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) and their products.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Sorin IONITESCU, Rafael Heitor Correia de MELO, Dorina POPOVICI, Aura CONCI

This paper aims to investigate the transmission of beef meat prices along the supply chain in Lithuania. A set of econometric techniques allows studying relationships between prices on the farm and at the retail store level during the period from 2010 to 2017. The Johansen co-integration test confirms the presence of the long-run co-movement of prices on upstream and downstream levels of the beef meat supply chain. In the short-run, the price on the farm Granger causes the development of prices on the downstream level and findings suggest an evidence of the pricesetting leadership on the upstream level. The error correction model shows the adjustment of the analysed prices towards the equilibrium with a rate of speed 25%

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Lilian MARIN

The impact of the phases of the solar activity cycle on winter wheat production in different physiographic zones of Ukraine: Polesie, Forest-Steppe and Steppe have been researched. Particular attention is paid to indicators of yield that have a significant impact on the development of agricultural industries. A correlation dependence between the yield of winter wheat and the phases of the cycle of solar activity was established. With a proper research of these indicators, the sectoral structures of agro-ecosystems can predict for income or prevent the growth of zonal costs in social production. The optimal periods for obtaining high and stable yields of the studied culture connected with the physical factors of nature are determined. That is why a large role is played by the scientific understanding and practical use of each individual phase of the solar activity cycle in agroecosystems, which enables a business entity to obtain a reasonable dynamic system by their periodic changes. At the same time, and is a prerequisite for control at all stages of culture production.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Anna Iyere KENNETH, David Uromimhenmen OKOEDO-OKOJIE, Francis Osagie IGBINOSA

The growth in agricultural and food production has not completely solved the problem of food security in Russia. Consumption of certain food products (milk, vegetables, fruits) is below rational consumption standards. A significant proportion of food provision is imported products. Since the imposition of international sanctions and the counter-embargo, imports have declined. For 2013-2017, imports of food and agricultural raw materials declined from USD 43.3 bln to USD 28.8 bln, or by 33.5%. The proportion of imports in the formation of food resources is about 25%. An indicator, characterizing food security is the level of self-sufficiency of the country in basic agricultural products. In recent years, this indicator is growing, but for some types of products (fruits, milk, and vegetables) it is not high enough. The authors reveal the risks in the food security sphere and offer measures to minimize them. In solving the food problem, important is import substitution based on increasing the proportion of domestic resources in the production of agricultural products and food (seeds of sugar beet, sunflower, vegetable crops, breeding animals, breeding eggs, veterinary drugs, machinery, and equipment). Particularly acute is the problem of food security in the production and consumption of fruits, vegetables, and milk. The solution to this problem can be achieved by the improvement of state support, the concentration of production in agricultural organizations and peasant (farmer) households, where there are favorable conditions for the innovative development of these industries, as well as the organization of agricultural products storage and processing in the places of its production, and the creation of consumer cooperatives.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Irina Rafikovna MANUKYAN, Madina Ahsarbekovna BASIEVA, Anna Nikolaevna GNEUSH, Gayane Yur'evna ARUTYUNOVA, Majya Mugdinovna UDYCHAK, Denis Anatolevich YURIN

The trade deficit itself is not a danger to the economy of a country, given that it is determined by imports of equipment, capital goods or other goods that contribute to economic competitiveness. If, however, the budget deficit is determined by the import of consumer goods, then this situation can be worrying. According to the data published by the National Institute of Statistics, Romania's budget deficit resulting from the commercial activity increased in January-May 2019 by 30.1 percentage points compared to the same period last year, under the conditions in which the value of exports increased. Therefore, in this article we intend to analyze the situation of the trade deficit in Romania, focusing on the agricultural trade in order to determine the factors that have contributed to the increase of this deficit that increases from year to year.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Gjore NAKOV

The study assessed the effects of Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Authority on dry season farming in Kura Local Government Area. The Purposive sampling technique was used to select 3 villages in the area in which 120 respondents were selected using simple random sampling. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive, statistics, percentages and Net farm income model to achieve the objectives of the study. The results from the costs and returns analysis shows the dry season farming production in the study area was profitable. The average returns per Naira Invested the farmer will realize 2 Naira. Thus the net farm income obtained is higher than the total costs incurred by the dry season farmers in the study area. This indicates that there is positive effects/impact on dry season farming in the study area. Income can still be improved upon with appropriate pricing, adoption of proper management practices, uniform water fee collection policy and accessing low cost inputs through bulk purchasing by farmers cooperatives. The constraint faced by the dry season farmers are limited access to credit, irrigation pumps and accessories, marketing system, seed, fertilizer, diseases and pests. It is recommended that appropriate input pricing, access to bank loan, provision of good marketing system, formation of FADAMA users association with aim of purchasing seed, fertilizer and chemicals which will help to reduce the cost and adoption of proper management practices will improve income.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Adelaida Cristina HONTUŞ, Cristiana TINDECHE

The study identified factors affecting extension graduates’ willingness to practice private extension service delivery in Oyo State, Nigeria. Using Taro Yamane sampling formula for finite population, extension graduates were selected from universities, public research institutes, state ministry of agriculture. The results of the factor analysis revealed that five factors affected the willingness of extension graduates to practice private extension service delivery. All the factors were isolated from twenty-eight variables with 69.5% contributions to the willingness of extension graduates to practice private extension service delivery in the study area. These include the institutional factor, extension personnel factor, economic factor, experience factor and association factor. The study concluded that institutional factor of the private extension system was the most important factor affecting extension graduates’ willingness to practice private extension service delivery. Therefore, a well legislated extension policy and institutional framework of operation should be developed by policy makers in order to facilitate a successful private extension practice.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 4
Written by Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU, Denisa-Florentina FULGEANU

Improved agricultural activities ensure food security at all levels and Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) in every state in Nigeria is saddled with the responsibilities of ensuring that up to date technologies are disseminated to farmers with a view to eradicating hunger. Broiler is among the popular livestock raised as means of income generation among farmers in the Southeast. However, little is known about the effectiveness of ADP communication methods on broiler production among farmers in Anambra State, therefore, the need for this study. Simple random sampling was used to select 90 farmers for the study and validated interview schedule was used for data collection. Findings reveal that only 39.3% of broiler farmers in Anambra State had post secondary education and the mean farming experience was 7.34 years. Among the six ADP communication methods identified, only three Results demonstration (3.48±0.90); method demonstration (2.99±0.83) and fellow farmers (not X 3.57±0.99)) were indicated to be effective for the adoption of broiler production technologies among farmers. Farmers’ awareness of broiler technologies (b= 2.59; t = 3.157; p≤0.05) was influenced by the ADP communication methods disseminated to farmers by the extension agents. It was observed that the effective ADP communication methods were interpersonal. It was therefore recommended that extension workers and other stakeholders should intensify efforts in using mass media as communication methods in order to reach out to large number of farmers.

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