This is a presentation of results the competitiveness of the agricultural farms in Bulgaria under the General Agriculture Policy (GAP) of the European Union. A new holistic approach was applied for evaluation of the competitiveness, taking into account their economic efficiency, financial...

This paper presents the results of a study on competitiveness of Bulgarian farms in the conditions of EU CAP implementation. First, it presents a new holistic approach for assessing farm competitiveness taking into account economic efficiency, financial capability, adaptability, and level of...

The results of a study are outlined here, aiming at assessment of the effects of EU CAP measures and tools on farms of various structures and degrees of specialization, on the grounds of a comparative analysis. The study is based on three surveys, carried out in 2007 and 2008; on data on the...

The study discusses an extremely actual problem of the expected changes in the state and development perspectives of the agricultural companies under the influence of the already negotiated support mechanisms by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of EU. Using the developed methodological...

This paper incorporates achievements of the New Institutional Economics and suggests a framework for assessing efficiency of farms and agrarian organizations. The new approach includes: study of farm and agrarian organizations as governing rather than production structure; assessment of...

This paper presents the results of the first large-scale study on forms, factors, and efficiency of eco-management in Bulgarian agricultural farms of different juridical type, size, specialization, and location. First, a brief characterization of surveyed “eco-active” farms is made,...

This paper presents the results of the first large-scale study on forms, factors, and efficiency of eco-management in Bulgarian agricultural farms of different juridical type, size, specialization, and location. First, a brief characterization of surveyed “eco-active” farms is made,...