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The authors conducted a study in December 2019 to investigate youth enthusiasm in Nepal for trans­forming the economy of the nation through farm­ing. A total of 320 respondents from four towns in three districts were selected for interviews that used a pretested questionnaire. Descriptive statis­tics were employed to analyze the data. Most of the youth had positive perceptions and enthusiasm toward farming, but many felt that farming was “burdensome,” due mainly to its perceived percep­tion to provide only a low income. Almost half the respondents (45%) were found to have a low level of contribution to economic transformation through farm involvement, with high (34%) and medium (21%) levels of contribution to the eco­nomy, respectively. There are several constraints hindering youth engagement with agriculture and overall agro-economic development. The major constraint is access to credit and markets, followed by poor social perception of farmers, inadequate government and extension service resources, access to modern technology, and other factors. The study authors recommend that the government and NGOs encourage youth engagement with agricul­ture by enhancing agricultural education, extension, financial support, and so forth. There is a need for extension program staff and policy-makers to bet­ter understand the role of youth in the community development process.

The authors conducted a study in December 2019 to investigate youth enthusiasm in Nepal for transforming the economy of the nation through farming. A total of 320 respondents from four towns in three districts were selected for interviews that used a pretested questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyze the data. Most of the youth had positive perceptions and enthusiasm toward farming, but many felt that farming was "burdensome," due mainly to its perceived perception to provide only a low income. Almost half the respondents (45%) were found to have a low level of contribution to economic transformation through farm involvement, with high (34%) and medium (21%) levels of contribution to the economy, respectively. There are several constraints hindering youth engagement with agriculture and overall agro-economic development. The major constraint is access to credit and markets, followed by poor social perception of farmers, inadequate government and extension service resources, access to modern technology, and other factors. The study authors recommend that the government and NGOs encourage youth engagement with agriculture by enhancing agricultural education, extension, financial support, and so forth. There is a need for extension program staff and policy-makers to better understand the role of youth in the community development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

World markets are opening up, borders are collapsing, so the free flow of goods and services, capital, ideas and people are integrating their economies like never before. Better, faster, more sophisticated communications and travel have reduced the impact and distance of international trade. All these factors make the export of the new century easier to do for companies of all sizes. Exports mean new entrepreneurial opportunities and increased sales. With careful planning, even the smallest Macedonian company can succeed internationally. The results obtained from the research indicate a slight increase in the export capacity of agro-enterprises, compared to the same research in 2007. However, companies with lower export capacity still dominate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the article the exposed conception organizationally economic to the mechanism of increase of efficiency of activity of agrarian enterprise and the presented aggregate of indexes which characterize efficiency of marketing activity of agrarian enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]