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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Yaroslav YANYSHYN, Andriy KOLODIY, Iryna KOLODII

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the main risks for agro-industrial enterprises in a pandemic and to form solutions for their optimization. The article analyzes the users of the agricultural sector according to the distribution of organizational and legal forms in relation to the use of financial and credit resources during the pandemic and before its onset. The experience of developed countries is used to analyze the financial performance of the credit system in Ukraine. The influence of public authorities and subjects of the banking system of Ukraine in the formation of anti-crisis measures to support agricultural enterprises is considered. The algorithm of the state credit program "Affordable loans 5-7-9%" has been developed and its shortcomings have been improved. A system of anti-crisis measures has been developed to eliminate possible risk situations for the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine during the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Roman BEZUS, Sofia BURTAK, Iryna VOLOVYK, Lesia KRIUCHKO

The article aimed to study current issues of financing of Ukrainian dairy service cooperatives. In particular, the authors’ purpose was to gain a better understanding of capital components of agricultural dairy cooperatives in Ukraine, their funding options, and to propose the policy recommendations for supporting cooperatives as prospective means for agricultural development in Ukraine. The study found that currently, the main financing sources for Ukrainian dairy service cooperatives are members’ payments, grants, and rented assets as credits are almost inaccessible for smallholder farmers. The survey showed that members, managers, and presidents of studies cooperatives think that the basic issues for the financing of Ukrainian dairy cooperatives are expensive credit capital, lack of the liquidity of cooperatives’ funds, and limited access to better education about cooperative finances for both members and administration groups.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Kazeem Oriyomi ABOABA, Akeem Adesina AKAMO, Damilare Michael FADIJI, Tohib Oyeyode OBALOLA

This study assesses the linkages between income diversification and household food security status using United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) 18 items questionnaire core module. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 240 households, data were collected with the use of structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics, Rasch model, Simpson Diversification Index (SDI) and ordered logit regression model. The result of the information function revealed that the scale is adaptable for this study. The SDI revealed that the households averagely diversify their income source. The USDA food security results revealed that majority of the households were in very low food security category. The ordered logit regression revealed that age (p<0.05), marital status (p<0.05) and dependency ratio (p<0.05) had negative effects on household food security status while income diversification (p<0.05) and access to health facilities (p<0.1) had positive effects. It was thereby concluded that income diversification increases household food security status while increase in number of dependent individuals reduces it. This study thereby recommended that regional government at all levels should set up skill acquisition and empowerment programs that will enable household’s practices farming along with a wide range of income generating activities, this will go a long way in reducing number of dependent individuals and increasing households food security status.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Agnieszka BIERNAT-JARKA, Paulina TREBSKA

Recent studies on consumer behavior have shown that there is an increase in consumer interest in natural food from their own farm or plot. In practice, the share of households, where the concern for the health of family members and the state of the natural environment is increasing. Polish consumers, which use food self-supply, used to choose this form of satisfying their consumption needs for economic reasons in the past, and now they choose it for health or environmental reasons. Analysing the role of the consumer behaviour is decisive for the development of new consumption trends, to which food self-supply largely fits. A quantitative and qualitative study was conducted based on a questionnaire to determine the behaviour of Polish consumers related to food self-supply, which allowed to determine how many households consume products from their own production among the surveyed population and what factors determine the choice of this form of consumption. The level of food self-supply in the surveyed rural households was high, and their members also declared that they would continue to use this form of satisfying consumption needs in the future. They justified their choice by assuming care for their and their family’s health, traditions passed down from generation to generation, and financial considerations.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Gjore NAKOV, Zlatin ZLATEV, Nastia IVANOVA, Ivan DIMOV

A problem in food industry is the various types of waste that are produced during and after food preparation. In this article, mathematical studies have been implemented to obtain what amount of food waste is most appropriate for the enrichment of food and the production of new functional products. The subject of the study are cookies and the subject is the addition of Apple peel powder (APP). Physico-chemical, organoleptic characteristics and spectral indexes of biscuits were used as an input data. Vectors of the most informative features are selected, describing main indicators of the quality of cookies. Mathematical models have been developed to describe the relationship between the amount of APP and the weighting coefficients of the feature vectors. Using the partial least squares regression (PLS), principal component analysis (PCA), and factor analysis (FA) methods, it has been determined the optimum amount of APP for cookies preparation. The study found that using the Factor Analysis (FA) method performed better than using PCA and PLS. It has been found that the amount of apple residues in cookies is APP=23,6±1,3%, which can be considered as optimal. The proposed methods and tools have the potential to reduce food and waste losses. They are also one way to reduce production costs and improve food quality.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Florin SALA, Cosmin Alin POPESCU, Mihai Valentin HERBEI

Fractal analysis was used to evaluate the degree of agricultural lands fragmentation. An area in the Western Plain, Romania was studied. The image was taken with the RapidEye satellite system. From the basic image, 10 polygons with equal resolution of 735 x 840 pixels were selected. For each studied polygon, the total surface (TS), the number of plots (PN), the average plot area (APA), and the fractal dimension (D) were determined. Fractal analysis was performed using the box counting method. The correlation analysis revealed a moderate, negative, correlation between PN and APA (r=-0.776), strong negative correlation between D and PN (r=-0.871), respectively a very strong, positive, correlation between D and APA (r=0.935). APA variation according to PN was most faithfully described by a smoothing spline model. Variation of fractal dimension D according to PN was described by a polynomial equation of degree 2, in conditions of R2=0.946, p<< 0.01, and the variation of D according to the APA was described by a polynomial equation of degree 2 in conditions of R2=0.939, p<< 0.01. Based on fractal dimension (D), regression analysis made it possible to estimate PN under conditions of R2=0.818, p=0.0025, F=15.782, respectively APA variation under conditions of R2=0.984, p<< 0.001, F=214.86. Based on PCA, PC1 explained 89.441% of variance, and PC2 explained 10.559% of variance. Cluster analysis led to the grouping of the studied cases, in condition of Coph.corr=0.988.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Dumitru Florin FRONE, Simona FRONE, Victor PLATON, Andreea CONSTANTINESCU

This article analyses the concepts, the purpose, the evolution and the present state of the waste management and recycling in EU. In view of a green or circular economy, there are several prerequisites for further development of the sector, since the analysis discovers issues of waste management and recycling in Romania compared with some other Member States. There will be also approached and highlighted some aspects regarding the management of the rural municipal waste in Romania. The analysis will lead to some conclusions in regard with chances of the member states to reach the ambitious recycling target of 50% adopted by EU. The revision of the legislative framework has the purpose of waste reduction and therefore sets up an ambitious plan in view of waste management and recycling. This plan consists of some challenging targets to be reached by 2030, such as: the recycling of 65 per cent of municipal waste and of 75 per cent of packaging waste (as common EU targets); reducing landfill to at most 10% of all the waste (binding target). The conclusions reflect recommendations for improving the waste management in Romania and topics of further research.

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

Fundamental to economic analysis is the idea of production function. It and its close concept of utility function form the poles of the neoclassical economy. The producer - one of the main players in the market economy - aims to perform those activities that ensure the desired output. Thus, the production factors intervene, the combination of which results in different levels of production. The classical theory represents this conditionality between the production factors and their result with the help of production functions. In this paper we characterize the phases of the production function specific to agriculture.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Eduard Alexandru DUMITRU, Dalila Gabriela STOICA

Direct payments granted in agriculture play an extremely important role for the incomes of Romanian farmers. This type of payments are funds from the European Union budget, more precisely from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), and in Romania these payments are granted through various schemes such as: Single area payment scheme, Redistributive payment, Young farmers payment, payment for agricultural practices beneficial for climate and environment, but also Coupled support. In relation to the amounts granted per hectare, on the one hand, the most targeted by farmers, is coupled support, which is granted to sectors considered economically, socially and environmentally important and which are affected by certain difficulties. The aim of this paper is to identify the progress made in certain cultures that have been encouraged through this form of support. The analyzed data comes from the Agency for Payments and Intervention for Agriculture. The conclusion is that this support plays an important role for agricultural practices related to climate change and the environment protection, having the role of crop diversification.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Faisal SULTAN, Sadia SHAIKH, Zeshan ANWAR

Corporate Entrepreneurship is not a new topic in the field of management however there is a lack of literature on the strategy concerning the eastern side of the world. Therefore, several studies indicated the need of thorough research work on the topic from the eastern side, especially from the context of GLCs working in rural areas as these forms of firms, are not only away from corporate entrepreneurship but are also in need of strategies to deal with competition and external environment. Thus, in order to make the study pragmatically significant, the data has been collected from the top and middle-level managers of GLCs in rural areas of Pakistan. The results of the study indicated that innovativeness is perceived as an effective predictor of CE in GLCs in rural Pakistan. However, moderation of organizational culture is nullifying the perceived impact of innovativeness on the operational performance of the firms.

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