Title Lietuvos žemės ir maisto ūkis 2014 /
Translation of Title Agriculture and food sector in Lithuania 2014.
Authors Melnikienė, Rasa ; Volkov, Artiom ; Namiotko, Virginia ; Stalgienė, Aldona ; Pareigienė, Lina ; Kuliešis, Gediminas ; Šapolaitė, Vaida ; Kraujelis, Jeronimas ; Gapšys, Albertas ; Bogdanov, Andrej ; Laskauskienė, Audronė ; Mikelionytė, Deiva ; Lukošiutė, Ingrida ; Petrauskaitė-Senkevič, Laura ; Devenis, Alvidas ; Ribašauskienė, Erika ; Žundienė, Ieva
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Keywords [eng] Agricultural economics ; Agricultural products ; Common market
Abstract [eng] In 2014, as compared to 2013, the value of gross agricultural output (at constant prices) dropped by 5.6% (provisional data). The decline was driven by decrease in purchase prices of good global harvest of cereal and vegetables and by the increased supply due to the Russian embargo on import from the EU. In the last year purchase prices of agricultural went down by %. products 7.5 %. In 2014 the export of agricultural and food products totalled EUR 4.7 billion (by 0.7% less than in 2013), while the import amounted to EUR 3.7 million (by 0.6% less). Starting 2004 (when Lithuania joined the EU) the balance of foreign trade in agricultural and food products was positive. But in 2014, as compared to 2013, it dropped by EUR 11 million and totalled EUR 963 billion. Aiming to increase the competitiveness of agriculture, to support farmers’ income, to reduce social disjuncture between rural and urban population, to save the environment, the economic entities are supported from the EU and national budgets. In 2014 the funds for agriculture made up EUR 875.1 million. In 2010–2014 the number of agricultural entities by category was changing unevenly. In 2014, as compared to 2010, the number of registered family farms went up by 2.4% and, as compared to 2013, increased by 0.4%. The average farm size of agricultural entities that declared UAA in 2014 was 19.9 ha, or by 7.6% larger than in 2013 and by 27.6% more than in 2010. In 2014 the certified organic area in Lithuania occupied 168 thousand hectares, or was by 12.5% larger than in 2010. The average size of a certified farm (including fishery farms) increased from 66.7 ha (in 2013) to 68.3 ha (in 2014). .
Type Book
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2015