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Balkans’s Agriculture Value Chain. Current Point of View

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  • Elena Stavrova

    (SWU “Neofit Rilski†-Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Faculty of Economics,Department “Finance and accounting†Blagoevgrad, 60 Ivan Mihaylov, Bulgaria)

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The current global situation in agribusiness is characterized by rapid changes and endless challenges under the influence of many factors, some of which compete unidirectional. Many countries are slowly reforming agricultural policies. This has helped to increase trade and the greater role of the private sector in agriculture vis-Ã -vis the state. The population growth, income and urbanization, changing crop culture, eating crops, declining crops to feed the population have contributed to rising global food prices. At the same time, consumer requirements related to safety, quality, convenience of trading are increasing and the differential between agricultural and commodity prices is constantly increasing due to the differences in the technological provision of the two production processes. The changed paradigm in the diet of produced, processed and, above all, health-safe but higher-priced and differentiated agricultural products has created opportunities for agricultural entrepreneurs to transform the goods into consumer-demanded products. Small, highly mobile family agribusiness has prompted greater private sector involvement in agriculture and focusing on the development and improvement of agricultural value chain chains (AVCs) in terms of quality, productivity, efficiency and depth. The value chains are formalized relationships between producer groups, dealers, processors, service providers and non-governmental organizations that unite to achieve productivity gains and added value to their activities. Individual added value is achieved by bringing together participants in a single value chain, and its participants increase competitiveness and are better able to maintain the level of this competitiveness through a culture of innovation.The limitations of each participant in the value chain are eliminated by establishing synergies and rules for communications along the chain, with the ultimate goal of achieving higher value. The main commercial advantages of stakeholders to engage as part of an effective value chain can be defined as:- The ability to reduce the cost of doing business; increasing revenue increasing market impact; -Enhancing access to technology, information and capital for the process of innovation in manufacturing and marketing in order to gain higher added value and ensure higher quality of customers. These and other important aspects of the functioning of value chains are the subject of research in this work. As a result, some conclusions are drawn about the place of the Balkan countries in the agribusiness development chains as well as the prospects for the development of the process in the whole.

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  • Elena Stavrova, 2018. "Balkans’s Agriculture Value Chain. Current Point of View," International Journal of Economics and Financial Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, vol. 4(8), pages 242-249, 08-2018.
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