TY - JOUR TI - Investigation of Sea Buckthorn Producer Cooperativity Possibilities: Case of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland AU - Radzevičius, Gediminas AU - Ramanauskas, Julius TI - Investigation of Sea Buckthorn Producer Cooperativity Possibilities: Case of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland AB - Strong farmers’ individualism limits their competitiveness. Smaller commercial agricultural producers find themselves at particular disadvantage. The sustainable agricultural paradigm requires farmers to receive adequate and regular income (which is independent of the crisis factors), and to preserve an environment and a biodiversity. However, Lithuanian farmers rarely take common actions in the market. The aim of article is to create an organizational system that allows different sizes of sea buckthorn growers’ farms to work together merging into cooperatives and producers’ organizations. There is suggested a merging system for different size buckthorn growers’ farms which allows unionize local, zonal and country cooperatives VL - 2013 IS - Issue 3 (23) PY - 2013 SN - 1896-0200 C1 - 2084-3968 SP - 309 EP - 319 DO - 10.4467/20843968ZP.13.025.1425 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-publiczne/article/investigation-of-sea-buckthorn-producer-cooperativity-possibilities-case-of-lithuania-latvia-and-poland KW - buckthorn KW - cooperatives KW - producer organizations