Farmers’ Preferences Selecting Agricultural Consulting Services
The Lithuanian farmers face with a huge need for information and counselling services to increase the competitiveness of farms and to increase farmers' ability to use the EU and Lithuanian government support funds for them. Farmers need to meet their needs of specific consulting services pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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NGO “Economic Laboratory for Transition Research” (ELIT)
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Montenegrin Journal of Economics |
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| Online Access: | http://mnje.com/sites/mnje.com/files/079-087-_z_-_7_-_tamuliene_et_al.pdf |
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| Summary: | The Lithuanian farmers face with a huge need for information and
counselling services to increase the competitiveness of farms and
to increase farmers' ability to use the EU and Lithuanian government
support funds for them. Farmers need to meet their needs of
specific consulting services provided by various organizations and
individual consultants in Lithuania. This raises the question: what
are the most important factors for farmers choosing consulting
services. Those are important for implications for consulting service
business strategy and regulatory policies. Hypothesis - the most important
factors of farmers’ selecting agricultural consulting services
are the counselling content, the counselling technique and the
length of counselling. The aim of the paper - to identify and investigate
the factors influencing farmers’ preferences selecting agricultural
consulting services. The analysis of these issues was a basis
for empirical research in Lithuania. For the research completion, the
methods of questionnaire survey were applied. The results of the
study showed that the most significant factors forming farmers' preferences
selecting agricultural consulting services are consulting
content and length of consulting. The regressive analysis enabled
the research in causality of connections and revealed that there is
present linear and statistically strong or very strong impact among
these variables. Also there are present direct and meaningful impacts:
between counselling content and farmers’ age, between
length of counselling and farmers’ the level of education and the
type of farming.. |
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| ISSN: | 1800-5845 1800-6698 |