
Violeta DirimanovaAgricultural University Plovdiv · Department of Management and Marketing
Violeta Dirimanova
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Introduction
Current research: exstantion services, resource economics, land and water management.
Methods and techniques:case study approach, surveys and different statistical approaches to analyze the data.
What are you working: land management, bio-economics and sustainable management of reuse water.
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January 2000 - present
Education
March 2004 - October 2007
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Publications (30)
In this article, Discrete Structural Analysis (DSA) of the contracts gravitating around the agricultural lands in Bulgaria are made. In practice, this means looking at both market and non-market frameworks of exchange or protection of agricultural
land ownership rights. To do this, a methodology from economics, law, and organization is used. Tempo...
The land reform has been a key element of the agricultural transformation during the long-term transition in Bulgaria, which aims to create favorable conditions for the establishment of market economy by decentralizing the process and restoring the right of ownership to all owners and their heirs. Ever since the crucial 1989, the agricultural secto...
Land relations are complex public relations arising on the basis of land use as an indispensable means of production in the agricultural sector. In the last three decades, the dynamics in development and the specifics of the complex processes related to the improvement of land relations in Bulgaria have reshaped public relations and led to signific...
Organic farming is a multifunctional set of activities that integrates economic and social issues with those related to environmental protection and is a suitable alternative for producers, processors and traders, helping to make the best decision for the organization, management and development of their farms. This production method contains both...
The characteristic features of organic farming, such as labour intensity, seasonality, higher production costs, lower incomes, more difficult production realization, etc., have a significant impact on the state and development of organic farms. The goal of the present scientific paper is to analyse and evaluate the impact and importance of subsidie...
The characteristic features of organic farming, such as labour intensity, seasonality, higher production costs, lower incomes, more difficult production realization, etc., have a significant impact on the state and development of organic farms. The goal of the present scientific paper is to analyse and evaluate the impact and importance of subsidie...
Country Report: Assessment of the EU-FAS in Bulgaria, by Dr. Violeta Dirimanova (University of Plovdiv)
The major role of the NAAS is to provide advisory services to farmers (especially for small agricultural holdings). Therefore, the NAAS as a public body fulfils the obligations of Bulgaria to exist and to access a system for farm consultations, a...
The aim of the forthcoming sixth International Scientific Forum "Agrarian Economics in Aid to Agriculture" - Conference "European Agriculture and the New CAP Period 2021-2017: Predictions and Results" is to enhance the exchange of experience, ideas and knowledge from different speakers and participants across the world within its range of topics.
ABSTRACT
The dynamics in the development of complex processes related to the improvement of land
relations in Bulgaria in recent decades has led to significant institutional changes in the
agricultural sector of the country. This dynamic of the Ownership and Use of Agricultural Land
Act reveals the existence of real issues in the socio-economic sys...
The impact of the institutional changes on the land relations in Bulgaria over the last 30 years is in response to the
number of processes and changes that have taken place before and after the accession of the country to the
European Union. The Ownership and Use of Agricultural Land Act, logically, has undergone the most changes
(more than 70 chan...
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In recent years, organic production has been one of the sectors that has grown in terms of areas, animals and
number of people involved in a control system, successfully applied in Bulgaria, even in times of crisis. The reasons
why organic production develops favourably are diverse and are related to the recognized benefit for the
developm...
Scientific journal «ECONOMICS AND FINANCE» АГРАРЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ -ПЛОВДИВ ИКОНОМИЧЕСКИТЕ ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ В ГЛОБАЛЬНАТА КРИЗА Събрани статии List of journals indexed Submitted for review in Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
The interest in growing raspberries in Bulgaria rose after the introduction of the Rur...
The small-scale farms are the main group that has an important role for the development of the agricultural and rural area in Bulgaria. This family business is officially engaged in one member of the family farm and required employment power by all others members. The small-scale farmers with agricultural education are very small. This type of farm...
The aim of this study is to explain the mechanisms through which knowledge is transferred in the agricultural sector in Bulgaria. To identify these mechanisms of interaction between science and practice and existing limitations and weaknesses, three scientific institutes, one experiment station and the Agricultural University were selected. Case st...
In this paper we assess the types of knowledge networks utilised by small-scale farmers in four case studies (located in Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom). We focus on knowledge acquired to inform three new activities being undertaken by study participants: agricultural production, subsidy access and regulatory compliance, and far...
The aim of the study is to assess the bankruptcy risk of selected meat processing enterprises, such as: Indykpol SA, Pamapol SA and Tarczyński SA. For the analysis, 450 financial data were collected and used in the models. The main criteria for the selection of the companies for testing were as follows: carrying out the main business in the area of...
Recently, Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKISs) have gained considerable attention in scientific and political forums in the European Union (EU). AKIS is considered a key concept in identifying, analysing and assessing the various actors in the agricultural sector as
well as their communication and interaction for innovation process...
Organic farming in Bulgaria is a new production method, which aims to provide quality and healthy food on the market. Farmers who produce organic products need adequate knowledge and specialized advice related to their production. The aim of this paper is to trace the importance of consultancy for the development of organic farming in Bulgaria. For...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was implemented in Bulgaria in 2007. Due to its complexity, farmers requested specific assistance from agricultural extension services. Drawing on interviews with extension service stakeholders, the authors explore the functioning and shortcomings
of the current Bulgarian public and private extension systems in...
During the agrarian reform in Bulgaria, farmland was restituted to its pre-collectivisation owners. All landowners have obtained their deeds even though land property rights are still absent in practice. One of the reform outcomes was Severe fragmentation in terms of land ownership. As a result, benefits from farmland are low, and the cost componen...
The cooperatives played an important role in Bulgaria's agricultural sector during socialism; they continued to fill an important position during the beginning of the agrarian reform. Nowadays, most of the cooperatives resemble the former socialist's type of collective farms in Bulgaria and are experiencing serious problems. It is worth asking why...
The land restitution in Bulgaria led to a severe fragmentation in land ownership. This has an impact on the agricultural development and land market. The article investigates the land transactions on the sale and rentals markets. In order to explain the processes three new institutional economic theories will be employed: property rights theory, tr...
"Bulgaria as one of the transition countries in the Central and Eastern Europe has been conducted a land policy which aimed to give back user rights to individual owners and to privatize the physical assets from collective farms. The restitution of ownership rights has led to land fragmentation in ownership and use. The aim of this paper, in one si...
"Property rights exist to secure individual interests when resources are scarce. The problems that may arise with a property system include: changes in formal institutions need time to be adopted by the social actors affected, cultural and social norms can influence patterns of institutional evolution, and a discrepancy may exist between legal righ...