Abstract
For 15 years the agrarian business in our country has been developing in a business environment formed mainly by the common agricultural policy. The purpose of the report is to assess this development in the South-East Planning Region and its impacts on the socio-economic development of rural areas and the state of the environment. The report uses quantitative and qualitative methods. They are the basis of mixed research design. Of the quality methods, expert assessment based on a survey and in-depth structured interviews with 26 experts at the municipal and district level were applied. Quantitative methods are used to process survey and statistical information on agricultural and rural development in the Southeast planning region. The main results are related to the changes in the production and organizational structure of agriculture and their impact on jobs and employment, the age and qualification structure of the employed, unemployment, migration processes, etc. The characteristics of the applied model of agriculture in terms of the predominant type of farms, the functioning of producer organizations, the transition to the production of quality products with protected geographical indications, etc. are outlined.
Highlights
The common and national agricultural policies since 2007 form the environment in which farms operate and are among the main reasons for the rapid and continuous changes in the production and organizational structures
To what extent are these elements and tendencies towards their development characteristic for the model of Bulgarian agriculture? How is the impact of these trends on rural development and viability assessed? To what extent does the changing model of agriculture have a positive effect on the economic, social and economic aspects of rural development? These issues are the subject of research in our country in a number of publications assessing structural changes [1, 2], the impacts of environmental agriculture [3, 4], the socio-economic characteristics of rural areas and regional differences in the model of Agriculture [5], etc
The production specialization of the farms is assessed with values close to the average, as according to the experts the insufficient irrigated areas and the insufficient labour force are the main reasons for limiting the production of fruits and vegetables;
Summary
The common and national agricultural policies since 2007 form the environment in which farms operate and are among the main reasons for the rapid and continuous changes in the production and organizational structures. The changes intensify the demand for a new model for agricultural development, in which the rural area will develop sustainably. How is the impact of these trends on rural development and viability assessed? To what extent does the changing model of agriculture have a positive effect on the economic, social and economic aspects of rural development? These issues are the subject of research in our country in a number of publications assessing structural changes [1, 2], the impacts of environmental agriculture [3, 4], the socio-economic characteristics of rural areas and regional differences in the model of Agriculture [5], etc. To what extent are these elements and tendencies towards their development characteristic for the model of Bulgarian agriculture? How is the impact of these trends on rural development and viability assessed? To what extent does the changing model of agriculture have a positive effect on the economic, social and economic aspects of rural development? These issues are the subject of research in our country in a number of publications assessing structural changes [1, 2], the impacts of environmental agriculture [3, 4], the socio-economic characteristics of rural areas and regional differences in the model of Agriculture [5], etc.
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