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Ruta from lithuania send me her comments because she couldnt publish them due to my technical mistake.
I'm publishing them now. But from now on you could publish your comments. The mistake was corrected.
Ruta wrote:
First what captured my attention was "young farmers". I'm not aware about the situation in other new member states, but in Lithuania this definition is almost from the sphere of science fiction. The majority of young people who decide to work in agriculture, go to Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, etc. Only few of them return to Lithuania to continue their business here. This is because our agriculture sector is a fortress of old-fashioned soviet bureaucrats, who are absolutely not happy to let some "fresh wind" in there (I guess you know the situation not worse than me - "Brazauskas, Uspaskich and Co" :) ). Anyway, we have in Lithuania Young Farmers Union, which is active in some political areas, although I never contacted them personally ! and have no idea how strong they are (and how young as well :) ).
Second, regarding methodology of actions. Don't you think it would be useful to prepare a questionnaire for participants to complete, in order the project leader could have some "standardized" information on key problems from many members states. I'm afraid that if you just collect presentations about certain subjects, you can have very different kind of information on wide range of subjects, and it can be difficult to make from it a comprehensive summary on all related issues.
In general, I really liked the idea, because it's time to start orientate farming to consumers, rather than to stupid subsidies so generously donated by the EU.
Ruta
I'm publishing them now. But from now on you could publish your comments. The mistake was corrected.
Ruta wrote:
First what captured my attention was "young farmers". I'm not aware about the situation in other new member states, but in Lithuania this definition is almost from the sphere of science fiction. The majority of young people who decide to work in agriculture, go to Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, etc. Only few of them return to Lithuania to continue their business here. This is because our agriculture sector is a fortress of old-fashioned soviet bureaucrats, who are absolutely not happy to let some "fresh wind" in there (I guess you know the situation not worse than me - "Brazauskas, Uspaskich and Co" :) ). Anyway, we have in Lithuania Young Farmers Union, which is active in some political areas, although I never contacted them personally ! and have no idea how strong they are (and how young as well :) ).
Second, regarding methodology of actions. Don't you think it would be useful to prepare a questionnaire for participants to complete, in order the project leader could have some "standardized" information on key problems from many members states. I'm afraid that if you just collect presentations about certain subjects, you can have very different kind of information on wide range of subjects, and it can be difficult to make from it a comprehensive summary on all related issues.
In general, I really liked the idea, because it's time to start orientate farming to consumers, rather than to stupid subsidies so generously donated by the EU.
Ruta
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