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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Borislav ATANASOV

Traditionally, foodstuffs are included in the consumer basket of households. Statistics for recent years reveals an upward trend in the marketof fast-moving consumer goods in Bulgaria. The growth in the number of retail outlets and in the number of fast-moving consumer goods in articular poses challenges to retail chains. The entry of foreign chains for consumer goods on the Bulgarian market as well as the variety oftheir product and brand supply result in intensified competition between them. The desire for increased market share is a prerequisite to roviding higher value to end consumers through the elements of a commercial product which ensure competitive advantages. In order to stablish the key (motivational) factors in the purchase process related to foodstuffs, a questionnaire was developed and a quantitative urvey was conducted based on the method of the structured personal interview. The survey also shows the frequency of purchasing various roups of foodstuffs, the degree of purchase planning, the impact of reference groups on the purchasing process through one-dimensional requency distributions.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Eghosa Osas UWAGBOE, Anthony Eghe AGBONGIARHUOYI

Efforts to mitigate the effect of pest had been through the use of chemicals, which often leave residues in cocoa beans. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with Sustainable Tree Crop Programme (STCP) promoted Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Nigeria. There is dearth of information on the challenges confronting cocoa farmers to use IPM hence a need for investigation. The study utilised a three-stage sampling procedure to select respondents from Cross River state. Trained farmers (10%) were selected using a systematic random sampling to obtain a total sample of 271. Field data were collected with Interview schedule on socio-economic, enterprise characteristics, and challenges faced by respondents in IPM adoption. Analysis was done with descriptive and inferential statistics. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to test hypothesis. The male respondents were 83.4% while the female were 16.6%. Very few (2.6%) of the respondents produced more than 4,000 kg of cocoa beans per annum. Age of farm with a weighed score of 244.5 was rated as the highest severe factor affecting IPM adoption. Negative relationship exists between challenges and adoption behaviour which was significant (r=-0.236, p=0.000). Challenges had high effect on adoption of IPM by cocoa farmers and yield was low. There is need for farm rehabilitation due to old age to boost yield and sustain cocoa production in the study area.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Omowunmi Veronica AYODELE, Oluwatosin Olusegun FASINA, Oluwatoyin Faramade OSUNDAHUNSI

The adoption of agricultural technologies is a vital strategy in addressing food security and improving households’ nutrition. This study xamined the determinants of adoption of biofortified cassava among farmers in South West Nigeria using a binary logistic regression model.Primary data through administration of structured interview were obtained from 396 respondents which were selected using a multistage samplng technique. Descriptive analysis of the socio-economic characteristics analysis showed the mean of 46.9 years, 1.8ha, 20.0 years and 238,693.18 for age, farm size, years of experience and income of the respondents respectively. Most (68.9%) of the respondents were males,77.0% were primarily farmers, 90.2% were literate, 87.1% were married, 86.1% had group membership while 89.4% had access to extension ervices. There were low levels of awareness of the benefits of biofortified cassava and cosmopliteness of the respondents. The Binary ogistic regression model result revealed that adoption of biofortified cassava was influenced by increase in awareness, perception, incomefrom cassava, marital status and a decrease in age. It is therefore recommended that increase in awareness, income, and positive perceptionand younger farmers should be targeted when channeling a course for adoption of a new technology.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Marioara RUSU, Violeta FLORIAN, Elisabeta ROȘU

In Romania, the used agricultural area is operated by approximately 3.4 million farmers whose main feature is the fact that they have the lowest level of professional training among all European Union countries. Many of these farmers lack basic skills that are considered essential for a modern agricultural economy. The main objectives of this paper are to analyze the current conditions and the main trends in the field of adult education in the agricultural sector and to identify its strengths and weaknesses. The analysis is centered to the current European context of lifelong learning and includes: statistical benchmarks, legal and institutional framework, adult training programs, funding sources and education and training providers. The working methodology targeted three stages: identification of documentary sources and collection of data and materials for analysis; statistical processing and analysis of data and information; information synthesis. The main conclusions of this study show that Romania has a well-established legal and institutional framework for adult learning with a diverse range of funding sources for the vocational training courses. In agriculture, the main vocational training providers are the county agricultural directorates/public advisory and extension service, private firms, agricultural faculties and non-governmental organizations. However the assessment of adult vocational training quality is facing the lack of a regulatory and implementation framework has led to the discrediting, to a large extent, of this type of training.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Olha DOROSH, Iosyp DOROSH, Shamil IBATULLIN, Viacheslav FOMENKO, Andriy DOROSH

It is established that the monopolization of means of production, in particular agricultural in rural areas, is one of the reasons for the decrease in the population of these regions, and also leads to a decrease in local budget revenues. Accordingly, maintaining one's own infrastructure at the proper level becomes less and less realistic. It was found that most United Territorial Communities (UTC) budgets in Ukraine are subsidized and their average subsidy from the government is about 45%. We found that 13 land users cultivate 68.5% of the agricultural land of the Kolomatska UTC. The community needs to increase its own budget revenues by 6.3% annually in order to compensate 60% of subventions and subsidies during 5 years. It is established that one of the ways to achieve this goal is to change the form of organization of agricultural production in the community from cultivation by single land users of large tracts of land they lease to the formation of agricultural cooperatives by landowners to ensure rational use of local resources and income distribution. Agricultural cooperatives are institutions of collective action that contribute to the rationalization of the use of natural resources. It is estimated that such a transition will double the income of landowners, and local budget revenues will increase by about 25%.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Adefunke Fadilat Olawunmi AYINDE, Olaoluwa Ayodeji ADEBAYO, Mathias Ofonedu UMUNNA, Azeez Olalekan IBRAHIM

This study was carried out to examine the agricultural extension services and farm input supply linkage in Ogun State, Nigeria. Data was obtained from interviewing sixty farmers randomly in Ifo Local Government Area, Ogun State. All the extension agents for the two block offices in the locality were also interviewed to corroborate the data obtained from farmers. Socio-economic characteristics of the respondents were ascertained to have positive influence on agricultural production. Inputs were found out to be supplied mainly by Ogun State Agro-Services Corporation (OGASC) and Ogun State Agricultural Development Programme (OGADEP), but these inputs are not always available at the required time and quantity while the linkage between OGADEP and OGASC was confirmed to be inexistence i.e. OGASC being the commercial arm of OGADEP supplies inputs directly to farmers through the Farm Service Centres (FSCs) and Input Sales Centre at the OGADEP Headquarters. Through these Centres, the farm inputs get to the Block Offices via the Zonal Office, from where the farmers are expected to purchase them. On the other hand, OGADEP supplies information on input needs of farmers to OGASC which assists the latter in making inputs available at the right time and in the right quantity. In addition to this, OGADEP also supply information on input availability to the farmers through the Village Extension Agents (VEAs) who also take recommended practices to these farmers. However, apart from their above mentioned roles, the VEAs are also involved in actual purchase of inputs to the farmers. This deviation from the “professionalism” dictate of the Training and Visit System of Extension Services would have good influence in boosting agricultural production in the study area.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Julia DOITCHINOVA, Albena MITEVA

The paper studied the impact of agriculture on rural development. The emphasis is on the changes in the development of agriculture in the conditions of Bulgaria's membership in the EU and on their impacts on the economic, social and environmental indicators for the status and development of the rural areas. The object of analysis is the South Central Planning Region of Bulgaria (BG42) at the NUTS-2 level. This study employed mixed quantitative and qualitative research design. The quantitative part presupposes the presentation and analysis of statistics on agriculture and rural development at the level of planning region, district and rural area (municipality) in the period of EU membership (2007-2017). Qualitative methods include the use of the experts evaluation method and in-depth interviews with 25 specialists from the regional office “Agriculture” and the regional office of the National Agricultural Advisory System. The conclusions of the analysis reveal that the model of agriculture in the study area is close to the characteristics of the Southern model of agriculture in Europe. Evidence for the more favorable effects of the emerging model of agriculture on rural development compared to other regions in the country (especially the three northern ones) are the slower migration processes, lower unemployment rates in some municipalities and etc.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Roman STUPEN, Oksana CHERECHON, Oksana STUPEN, Olga SOLTYS

The paper studied the methodical foundations of the organization of dynamic crop rotations in economic formations with narrow specialization of production in the article. Taking into account the suitability of agricultural production groups of soils for growing crops, one has developed agro-climatic substantiation of their location on the studied land plots of LLC “LUHY-2”, located in the Forest-Steppe zone. It was proposed to develop and implement in the production of crop rotation for rapeseed cultivation on the territory of the studied farm to increase the gross yielding capacity. There were presented schemes of soil-protective crop rotations for different ecological and technological groups of lands of the Forest-Steppe zone, where the object of research is located, taking into account the suitability of land for growing crops, soil and climatic conditions and production specialization on the example of model economy.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Bababunmi Alaba AJAYI, Abiodun Oladayo AJALA, Abiodun Rukayat ADEYEMO

This study was conducted to assess traditional incubation and hatching methods of indigenous poultry eggs, and the level of knowledge of poultry farmers in Kwara State of Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 80 household poultry keepers who were interviewed using structured questionnaires for data collection. Four Local Government Areas (LGAs) were randomly selected while a non-probability snow-ball technique was used to select five households who are known for rearing indigenous chickens. The results showed the mean age of poultry keepers in the study area was 51±8 and the mean flock size in the study was 21±5.chickens About 11.2% of the respondents keep poultry as a source of income and 7.5 % raise chickens solely for consumption while 87.5% keep chickens for both consumption and income purposes. 71.2% of respondents keep chicken eggs for incubation and hatching for replacement purposes. The mean income from sales of poultry products was 2,800±149 NGN (US$7.7). The result further showed that 52.8% of the farmers had a low level of knowledge while 32.4% had a moderate level of knowledge and only 14.8% of them had a high level of knowledge about the process of traditional incubation and hatching methods. The ordered logistic regression model results showed that, age 0.128 (p=0.00611), annual income 0.000212 (p=0.0193) and years of formal education 0.5318 (p=0.0121) influenced the likelihood of higher level of knowledge about the processes of incubation and hatching of eggs of indigenous chicken of the respondents. Predator, inadequate funds, and theft are the major constraints faced by the poultry keepers in the study area. There is a need for more empirical studies by animal breeders and extension service providers to give proper orientation to the poultry keepers on the process of incubation and hatching of eggs for rapid multiplication of indigenous poultry birds to improve food and nutritional security for a sustainable development.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Mykola DZIAMULYCH, Valentyna YAKUBIV, Iryna SHUBALA1, Dmytro FILIUK, Liudmyla KOROBCHUK

An evaluation of the rural labour market development in terms of districts of Volyn region of Ukraine was conducted, identified and characterized trends in the rural population employment through the State Employment Service of Ukraine, the rural population unemployment scale in the study region of Ukraine and identify key areas for optimizing the labour market. forces taking into account the revealed tendencies. In order to highlight the local rural labour markets features and further development of individualized recommendations, the detailed assessment of them in terms of districts of Volyn region of Ukraine, in particular, based on the results of the registered rural labour market study developed a map to visualize the relevant regional groups. It is established that family-labour farms, functioning in the form of peasant farms, in the current economic situation provide the necessary conditions for the institutional foundation's formation for private management in rural areas of Ukraine. The necessity of forming preconditions for strengthening the effectiveness of employment policy in rural areas of Ukraine is substantiated. The article outlines proposals for improving and optimizing the functioning of the rural labour market. Based on the results of research and trends in the work, the need to develop measures to intensify the activities of advisory services and specialized staffing agencies to take into account the specifics of the rural labour market rationalization and the peculiarities of rural employment in the economic realities of Ukraine.

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