Tiesioginės paramos įtaka žemės ūkio gamintojų pajamoms ; Impact of Direct Support on the Income of Agricultural Producers
The object of the paper is the impact of direct payments on the income of agricultural producers. The subject matter of the paper is the impact of direct payments on the income of big and small agricultural producers farming in less favourable to agriculture areas and favourable to agriculture areas. The aim of the paper is to investigate and assess the impact of direct payments on the income of agricultural producers from the systemic point of view. Objectives: 1. analyse the concept of income from agriculture and factors influencing the such income; 2. analyse the legitimacy of governmental regulation and the necessity of direct support; 3. establish the impact of direct support on the income of big and small agricultural producers; 4. establish the impact of direct support on the income of agricultural producers farming in the areas less favourable to agriculture and favourable to agriculture; 5. analyse the efficiency of dissociation of direct payments from production; 6. generalize data analysed in the present paper, to perform a research and to give conclusions as well as suggestions. The methods of the study: analyse, analytical, collection and analysis of statistical data, grouping, graphic modelling, questionnaire survey, logical and generalisation methods. Having analysed the scientific data, the data of respondents' farms and statistical data, the impact of direct support on the income of big and small agricultural producers farming in less favourable to agriculture areas and favourable to agriculture areas was established.