Luc Hens, Leonid Hr. Melnyk, Olena Yu. Chygryn, Iryna B. Dehtyarova, Anastasia S. Chmut
The Development of Green Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex: the EU Experience and the Prospects for Ukraine
(original language – English)
https://doi.org/10.21272/mer.2018.82.01
Today the modern trend in the world agriculture complex is development of the organic agriculture production through implementation “green” technologies in farming, livestock farming, poultry farming etc. The article deals with the investigation of the international modern trends in the organic production. The article analyzed state of domestic organic poultry farming and determines its main future development prospects for Ukraine. The analyzed world share of organic producers, the scale of global organic products market show strong tendencies in the way of the development the organic production, where the share of global organic product market belongs by developed countries. The authors analyzed the key benefits of world organic production, which include not only traditional understanding of the problem and also economic, ecological and social determinants. The analysis of the current situation in Ukraine allows concluding that the organic product market is generally represented by local producers, which are not always certified, but de facto operate in compliance with organic standards. These producers can become the basis for the formation of the “organic” market, the driving force for implementation the green technologies in agriculture sphere and their experience can help to develop this industry. The authors emphasized that the precondition for organic poultry farming expansion have to be the certified agricultural lands in Ukraine. Besides the article summarized the main perspectives for poultry farming development in Ukraine and determine the basic requirements for organic poultry farming. The main constraints of the organic poultry farming development were analyzed in the paper.
Key words: organic agriculture, organic production, benefit, poultry farming, certification, potential.
Placed in №4, 2018.
Affiliations:
Luc Hens, Ph.D., Professor, Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologish Onderzoek, Mol, Belgium; Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla, Colombia: Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine;
Leonid Hr. Melnyk, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor, Head of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University;
Olena Yu. Chygryn, C.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business-Administration, Sumy State University;
Iryna B. Dehtyarova
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