Diversification types of agricultural business organizations activity and factors determining them

The article analyzes the diversification types, forms and their choice conditioned by the inner and outer environmentfactors in agriculture business organizations. The analysis of the agriculture census data showed that external diversification of agriculture business organizations is more popular compared to internal diversification. The former diversification ensures extra incomes and higher employment of human resources without additional investment and with minimal risk. Wage labor is the main form of Ihe external diversification. The internal diversification implements 5.9% of agriculture business organizations. Mostly these organizations choose closely related forms of internal diversification (non-traditional agriculture, ecological agriculture). Above mentioned agriculture business organizations are aimed at the synergy in more rational usage of available inner resources and less activity risk. The diversification of agricultural business organizations activity (when applying unrelated forms, e.g., wood reprocess and trade of wood ware, crafts, rural tourism) prevails in unfavorable for farming localities and is characteristic to organizations with higher intellectual and management potentialVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij