Support for small farms and its improvement

Research object – the support measures for small farms. Research aim – to identify the support measures for small farms and to suggest their possible ways of improvement. Objectives: 1) To propose the criterions of size of farm and the conception of small farm at policy; 2) To explore the estimations of national economic and social support at economic literature; 3) To explore the national measures for small farms and to deduce the possibility of small farms to use them; 4) To explore the measures of Europe Union for small farms and to deduce the possibility of small farms to use them; 5) To identify the support measures for small farms; 6) To give suggestions for improvement of support measures for small farms. Research methods. To propose the mostly used criterions of size of farms, the conception of small farm at policy and the national economic and social support measures at economic literature were used the analysis and synthesis methods of scientific and juristically literature. To explore the measures of national and of Europe Union supports were used analysis and synthesis methods of juristically literature, programs. To identify the support measures for small farms and to give suggestions were used statistical, comparative analysis and graphic figure methods.Žemės ūkio akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta