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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Panny Mascot YUNUSA, Dengle Yuniyus GIROH

The study examined the Determinants of Youth Participation in Food Crops Production in Song Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of the youth, examine the determinants of youth participation in food crops production and identify constraints faced by the respondents. Data were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire administered to 121 randomly selected respondents. Analytical tools used in the analysis of data were descriptive statistics and logit regression. Results showed that 55.38 %, of the respondents were in the range of 18 – 29 years with mean age of 27 years, 58.68% were married with the mean household size of 3 people respectively. Also, 95.87 % were literate and attained one form of formal education or the other with mean annual income of N185,911. Furthermore, 87.60% participated in food crops production, 71.69 % of the respondents had 1 to 5 years of experience with mean farming experience of 7 years, 75.47 % cultivated less 3.44 hectares of farm land with an average farm size of 2.5 ha. Logit regression result revealed that 82.27 % of the variations in the participation of youths were explained by the variables in the model. Marital status, farm size, income and education were the major determinants of youth participation in food crops production. Inadequate capital, poor government attention on agricultural sector, poor roads and rural infrastructure and inadequacy of inputs at the right time were the major constraints to youth participation in food crops production. Agricultural sector be given priority attention by government, re-introduction of subsidy on inputs and formation of viable cooperative groups to facilitate access to farm credit were recommended in the paper.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 2
Written by Vecdi DEMİRCAN, Hacer CELİK ATES, Deniz SARICA, Nadiye CAVDAR

The lack of both food assurance and food safety is of global concern. With the welfare of the countries increasing, consumers have put more importance on the food content, reliability and health of the food they consume. With the development of technology, radio, television, and internet, consumers' awareness about safe food has also begun to evolve through communication tools. In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of consciousness of consumers in Isparta province on food safety. The main material of the study was the data provided from the questionnaires conducted by face-to-face interviews with families residing in Isparta city centre. Single-step simple random probability sampling method was used to determine the number of families to be surveyed. The number of samples in the calculation is 384. The study shows that 57.8% of consumers heard about the concept of food safety and 42.2% of them did not hear the concept of food safety. It was found that 13.8% of the consumers had knowledge about the quality control and audit institutions and 86.2% of them had no information on this issue.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 2
Written by Bahri KARLI, Fatma ERTATIŞ, Filiz YÜKSEL, Ayşe TEKİN, Mevlüt GÜL

In this study, red meat consumption preferences and factors affecting consumption were investigated according to income status of families living in urban areas in Isparta province, Central district. Face - to - face interviews were conducted with 320 households living in the urban area and the data were collected by questionnaire from January to March 2013. Households were divided into 3 different income groups according to their monthly incomes (households with 0-1,600 Turkish Lira (TRL), 1,601 - 3,500 TL and over 3,501 TL). Demographic characteristics, places of purchase, frequency of consumption, and reasons for branded product preferences were explored in the study. In addition, the relationship between socio-economic and demographic characteristics of consumers and red meat consumption was analysed by chi-square test.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 2
Written by Vecdi DEMIRCAN, Suna ONCEBE, Sumeyye Nergis TERZI

The purpose of this study was to determine families’ consumption levels and preferences for egg in urban areas of Isparta province in Turkey. The main material of the study consisted of the data obtained from surveys, which were conducted by face-to-face interviews with 384 families in Isparta city center. As a result of the research, it was determined that the average population per family was 3.5 persons. It was found that the share of monthly food expenditures in income was 25.3% and the share of monthly egg expenditures was 4.6 % in food expenditures. It was determined that 98.4% of the families consumed eggs, 86.2% at breakfast and 65.1% consumed as boiled. It was found that 20.9% of the families consumed quail eggs in addition to chicken eggs. The annual egg consumption was calculated as 250 per person. It was found that 54% of the families preferred to consume medium size eggs and 60.1% of the families preferred dark colored egg yolk. Results showed that 48.7% of families paid attention on production date while purchasing eggs, 51.6 % of them purchased eggs from supermarkets, 65.9% of them bought it once a week and %50.3 of them preferred gelatin coated viol as packaging. It was also determined that 85.78 % of the interviewed families were aware of organic eggs and 86 % of them would pay higher price for organic eggs.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 4
Written by Tsvetana HARIZANOVA – METODIEVA, Nikola METODIEV

The aim of the study is to determine the number of occupied persons, needed by dairy cattle farms in Bulgaria. The information was collected through interview and the number of cows in the main herd, decares of arable land (own and rented) and the number of occupied persons, directly involved in the production process, were analyzed. A regression model was constructed with a confidence level of 95% using the Ordinary Least Squares Method. The regression model is as follows: L = C1.A + C2.D + C + a, where: L is natural logarithm of the the number of occupied persons, needed by dairy cattle farms; А is natural logarithm of the decares of arable land; D is natural logarithm of the number of dairy cows; C1 and C2 are the coefficients of the independent variables; С is a constant; a is an error of the regression. By replacing the constant and the coefficients with their theoretical values, it is obtained the following model: L = 0.067.A + 0.596.D - 1.386. The number of occupied persons could vary depending on the type of crops, the technology and the intensification of the production process. With the increase in the number of cows in the main herd and the amount of arable land, the number of occupied persons needed also increase. The constant in the regression model is a negative number (-1.386), which could be explained by better utilization of the working time: a major part of the occupied persons can perform activities related to dairy farming, and can also be included in forage production. It could be concluded that for a farm with 20 cows and 20 decares of arable land, the theoretical number of occupied persons is 1.8. A farm with 100 cows and 100 decares of arable land needs an average of 5.3 workers, but the number can vary between 3.8 and 6.8 workers. In a farm with 150 dairy cows and 3,000 decares of arable land needs an average of 8.5 workers. The combination of forage production and dairy cattle production leads to optimization of the number of occupied persons needed.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 4
Written by Andreas PAPANDREOU

The purpose of this paper, is to investigate the planning and development a mapping, georeferenced and analytical tool and the utility of this, in agricultural sector. The methodological approach followed is based on the research of scientific approaches and scientific bibliography, also using technological innovations and aims at the overall assessment of the usefulness of such a technological development in agricultural sector. As a result of this research, it is considered that proper planning and optimal use of all the data held in their hands by farmers, is necessary so that they have sustainability in agricultural sector.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Sri Ayu ANDAYANI

Gedong Lipstick Mango (reddish mango) is a commodity with economic and strategic value because it has a pretty good market opportunities in the local and export markets. Majalengka can be regarded as one of the Gedong mango production center that considerable potential in West Java, especially in the District of Panyingkiran. However, mango cultivation still has problems ranging from manufacturing to post-harvest which still modest. It has not applied the proper technology so that the harvest quality is still low with discontinuity production as well as relevant actors who do not have a good synergy which adds to the increase of complex problems in mango farming. This research aims to assess the occurrence of unstructured problems and is expected to offer a solution of adaptive mango agribusiness development. This study is a qualitative design using case study method and system thinking of soft system methodology (SSM) approach. The results showed that the formulation of improvements to be made in mango cultivation is the coordination and collaboration among related parties which are optimized through control activities by performing intensive coaching and mentoring. There is also dissemination of information and technology related to the implementation of innovation in supporting the continuity of supply that generates a model of agribusiness development in integration with related parties which supported government regulation. Similarly, a partnership with industrial companies or structured market through the principles of justice should be reorganized with the establishment and strengthening cooperatives as facilities for mango farmers in realizing a strong mango agribusiness system and implementing appropriate corrective measures according to SSM results.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 2
Written by Ayse TEKIN, Bahri KARLI, Mevlut GUL

The share of the agricultural sector in employment in Turkey is 23%. Turkey is among the world's leading countries in the production of many agricultural products. In this respect, it has a great potential in terms of agricultural insurance. In 2005, in Turkey, "Law on Agricultural Insurances" was enacted with the law numbered 5363. In this 10-year period, premium production was realized as 5 billion Turkish Liras. The total number of farmers who have insurance in Turkey reached 2,031,061 in 2016 and the 316,000 damage file has been processed, 900 million Turkish liras were paid to the producers. In case producers have to insure agricultural insurance, the price they will pay per decare is 330 TL. These farmers will be able to pay close to 10 thousand Turkish liras in case of damage to their land. In this study, it was aimed to examine the agricultural insurance schemes existing in Turkey, the agriculture insurance pool system and the 10 years development under the law numbered 5363. In this context, the development of plant life, animal life, greenhouse, beekeeping, poultry life and aquaculture life insurance was examined. Proposals were developed for the producers to benefit more from agricultural insurance premium subsidies. Findings obtained from other studies related to the subject were also examined. In insurance premium subsidies, the innovations and objectives of the year 2017 implementations were also mentioned. In this system, 50% and/or 66.7% of the insurance premium is covered by the government as unrequited support. In total premium production in Turkey, there is a plant product insurance with a share of 28.0% at the maximum and an animal life insurance with a share of 20.8% in the second. The number of policies and insurance premiums increased by 27% and 32% respectively in 2015 compared to the previous year in Turkey. As of December 30, 2016, total premium production in Turkey has reached TL 1.3 billion. As of 2016, 2 million 470 hectares of land belonging to 562 thousand farms in 72 provinces were damaged from natural disasters. However, it is noteworthy that the ratio of insured farmers was between 10-20%. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the producers' regularly insured agricultural insurance rates. In this regard, actions are being proposed to increase awareness of more producers. In this way, there may be a minimum loss of producer income in the agricultural sector where risk and uncertainty are high.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 3
Written by Zoya Shapiulahovna BABAEVA, Yuriy Ivanovich SIGIDOV, Sergey Vladimirovich DOKHOLYAN, Elnara Migaxhidinovna EMINOVA, Rustam Alievich YALMAEV

The growth of the investment activity in the Russian agro-industrial complex (AIC) is substantiated by the specificity of the agro-industrial production, the functioning of which is related to overcoming the following systemic problems: underdevelopment of infrastructure facilities, shortage of qualified production and management personnel, and a low level of developing scientifically grounded economic forms. The article introduces methods for supporting the AIC investment activity, including the economic methods that were recognized as the most preferable ones. The following instruments that have a direct financial influence in the taxation, credit-and-monetary, budgetary and external economic areas have been defined within economic methods: provision of tax credits for the placed investments (so-called tax credit); provision of tax incentives and special tax regimes for investors at AIC enterprises; accelerated depreciation of fixed capital; targeted lending of AIC enterprises for investment purposes; subsidies and subventions from local budgets for AIC enterprises; forming and funding of AIC investment projects from regional budgets; provision of budgetary guarantees to AIC private investors; attracting foreign investment in the region AIC; provision of privileges (taxation, lending) to AIC enterprises that participate in the foreign economic activity, etc. The sequence of organizing investment processes in AIC is shown. The normative and legal support for the AIC investment activity in the form of a three-level system of normative acts is given.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 1
Written by Nikolai Ivanovich KUZNETSOV, Nadezhda Viktorovna UKOLOVA, Sergey Vladimirovich MONAKHOV, Juliya Anatolyevna SHIKHANOVA

The economies of the world’s leading countries are characterized by a high level of development of digital technologies, the introduction and use of these technologies. Many countries make the construction of a new model for the development of the national economy, based on the development of the digital economy, the priority of their development. The construction of the digital economy in Russia is a strategic task that ensures national security, competitiveness and development effectiveness at various levels and in different sectors of the economy. The authors’ interpretation of the concept of "digital economy" is given in the article, taking into account the prevailing level of development of digital technologies, their role and significance in modern society. The authors come to the conclusion that nowadays the Digital Economy is an economy using digital technologies. The study analyzes the current level of development of the digital economy in Russia, reveals that the country has significant scientific and resource potential for the development of the digital economy, including that of modern Russian agriculture. The current tendencies and perspective directions of development of the digital economy in Russian agriculture are considered.

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