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From the Editor

The format of the current issue of the journal is quite unusual due to the fact that it is entirely dedicated to the description of studies conducted within the international cooperation projects between Poltava State Agrarian Academy (Ukrainę) and Technology University of Częstochowa (Poland) to the whole extent.

Despite being relatively recent, the cooperation between the aforementioned universities is quite dynamie and rapidly evolving. Although the majority of the studies were conducted within the official scientific collaboration, the wide variety of the presented topics of the initiatives and projects meeting the individual scientific interests of the researchers needs to be underscored.

A wide rangę of topics presented in the journal demonstrates a vast diversity of the existing research centers. However, they all have a common strategie direction, based on the priorities to ensure the effective development of agriculture and rural areas. Particular attention is paid to the feasibility of introducing the effective methods of marketing and management as well as logistics activities and IT technologies.

The choice of the research topie was predetermined by the priority to provide a balanced development of the agricultural sector both in Poland and in Ukrainę. It is necessary to highlight that this is not only due to historical-cultural and economic values of both countries, but is also resulting from the requirements and recommendations of the European community, which has been putting a special emphasis on the need to inerease the welfare of the rural population and the environmental safety of agricultural production.

In order to ensure economic efficiency of production in balance with the needs of local communities, while preserving the environment, further scientific studies and the constant practical implementation of the acquired results are needed. We believe that by the methods for providing the wide information and consultation support, IT innovations, optimization of logistics flows and distribution is the key to success.

The main purpose of our projects is to study the experience of Poland and Ukrainę as well as the possibility of its application in other countries. Therefore, all articles in this issue are written in English, which was previously approved as the working language.

We hope that the effort to demonstrate results of the joint international scientific collaboration will not only inerease the interest of scientific audience in the represented topics.

Anna Brzozowska Bogusława Ziółkowska

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