<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Despite of reduction of its share on the gross domestic product, agriculture remains a branch generating job opportunities in rural areas. However, through more intensive farming procedures, it puts a pressure on environment and sustainability of agricultural production and prolongs the distance of distributed goods. Reduction of the mentioned impacts is possible through shortening the food supply chain subsequently resulting in increase of local sale, demand for local services and increase of labour market, putting an emphasis on support of small and medium – sized enterprises and their economic viability improvement. This paper evaluates the performance of small and medium enterprises and micro-enterprises which applied for the support and supplied and distributed fruits, vegetables, milk and milk products to kindergartens and primary schools within the School Fruits and Vegetables and the School Milk programme. We suppose that through supplying local schools they contributed to the food supply chain shortening.</p></abstract>

Despite of reduction of its share on the gross domestic product, agriculture remains a branch generating job opportunities in rural areas. However, through more intensive farming procedures, it puts a pressure on environment and sustainability of agricultural production and prolongs the distance of distributed goods. Reduction of the mentioned impacts is possible through shortening the food supply chain subsequently resulting in increase of local sale, demand for local services and increase of labour market, putting an emphasis on support of small and medium – sized enterprises and their economic viability improvement. This paper evaluates the performance of small and medium enterprises and micro-enterprises which applied for the support and supplied and distributed fruits, vegetables, milk and milk products to kindergartens and primary schools within the School Fruits and Vegetables and the School Milk programme. We suppose that through supplying local schools they contributed to the food supply chain shortening.

Evaluation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Operating in Short Supply Chains Within Slovak School Programmes

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

Acta Regionalia et Environmentalica

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Despite of reduction of its share on the gross domestic product, agriculture remains a branch generating job opportunities in rural areas. However, through...

Evaluation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Operating in Short Supply Chains Within Slovak School Programmes

Published Online: Aug 17, 2019

Page range: 1 - 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aree-2019-0001

Keywords
short food supply chains, micro-enterprises, small enterprises, medium enterprises, School Fruits and Vegetables programme, School Milk programme, receipts from sales of own products

© 2019 Norbert Floriš et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Evaluation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Operating in Short Supply Chains Within Slovak School Programmes

Published Online: Aug 17, 2019

Page range: 1 - 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aree-2019-0001

Keywordsshort food supply chains, micro-enterprises, small enterprises, medium enterprises, School Fruits and Vegetables programme, School Milk programme, receipts from sales of own products

© 2019 Norbert Floriš et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
short food supply chains, micro-enterprises, small enterprises, medium enterprises, School Fruits and Vegetables programme, School Milk programme, receipts from sales of own products