| Abstract [eng] |
The paper deals with the purpose and particularity of the annual international scientific conferences “Vision of the Modern Village”, organized at Šiauliai University by Rural Development Research Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences (Lithuania). Necessity for these conferences is determined by three main factors. First of all, understanding of the village even in academic society is extremely closely related to the agrarian sector. Even investments in the development of rural economy more often than not are evaluated as prospectless and unable to stimulate progress of science and home manufacture. Secondly, the majority of scientific discussions dedicated to rural topicalities are, as a rule, designated to survey of one field of agrarian science or to one branch of rural economy, for example, animal science, husbandry, apiculture, horticulture, etc. The scientific workshops organized for analysis of rural development topics with participation of natural, social and humanitarian sciences, are recognized as rarity or exception. Thirdly, the integrated implementation of scientific and managerial innovations for the countryside (rural) economy is still hardly imaginable in the postsoviet region. Objectives of the implementation of sustainable and wellbalanced economics in the nonurbanized areas and hinterlands are still at the level of nice verbal declarations or good intentions. The differences and inequalities in economic and social development of regions become more and more evident. Social, cultural and e ven political disjuncture of rural population become the main obstacle to the state progress. [...]. |
