Goals and objectives of the rural development in the European Union and Lithuania: a systematic approach

The economic growth, its pace, quality and other characteristics depend not only on the agricultural capacity of the country, but also on the clearly formulated economical development goals and objectives. The change of the rural development conceptions in the chronological order, the essential aspirations and features of the present-day rural development conceptions and the directions as well as expected results of the rural development are discussed in this article. Most of the discussions are displayed as the debate in the scientific form. As the results of the investigation, the main directions of the agriculture and rural development in Lithuania are presentedVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij