Competitiveness of the agricultural production became of special importance for Lithuanian agricultural sector working under global market conditions. Agricultural competitiveness depends on the users’ needs and, especially, on the ability to produce cheaper and better quality products than its competitors. Despite the fact that Lithuanian farmers have improved their situation after the accession to the EU, they still do not use all the opportunities to become competitive in the single market. Therefore for a Lithuanian farmer it is difficult to compete with modern agricultural farms having a large share of the market. Internal and external competitiveness factors are driving new opportunities and constraints for each producer and require coherent analysis including comparison effectiveness of agriculture among EU-27. The material was initiated and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture under the “Agriculture and food sector, rural development policy implementation, economic and social research” program and was carried out in the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics. The aim of the research is to assess the competitiveness of Lithuanian agricultural sector in the context of EU-27.
Krisciukaitiene, I.; Melnikiene, R.; Galnaityte, A. Competitiveness of Lithuanian farms and their agriculture production from present to medium - term perspectives // European Union Food Sector after the last enlargements - conclusions for the future CAP. Institute of agricultural and food economics national research institute / Competitiveness of the polish food economy under the conditions of globalization and european integration. Warszawa, 2011, No. 6.1, p. 145-164, ISBN 978-83-7658-134-7.
