Background The xanthan gum production has been growing significantly. It is estimated an annual increase by about 5 to 10%. The production needs a carbon source in fermentation media and are commonly employed as glucose or sucrose, which accounts for about 50% of the cost of production. Therefore the use of agro-industrial residues, such as corn cob for the production of xanthan gum becomes sug...

Achieving competitiveness in the global world economy system requires strengthening innovative direction of representatives domestic agro-industrial sector. The component agricultural sector also plays an important role solving country’s food security. article considers basics development activity enterprises and impact complex on country Obstacles are analyzed priority directions reflected.

The purpose of this study is to investigate key characteristics for the competitiveness in Greek agro-firms during the time period 2004 to 2011, based on firm level financial data. The study attempts to determine the firms’ efficiency as well as the impact of exporting activity in agro-firms competitiveness, and more specifically in fisheries, farms with livestock and farms with fruits, vegetab...

The article investigates the revealed comparative export advantage, relative import specialization advantage, relative trade advantage, intra-industry trade and its quality types in agrofood trade of Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia with the European Union (EU) market. The empirical results confirmed bulk of agro-food and forestry products with revealed comparative export advantages on the EU mark...

Pakistan introduced a package of economic reforms consisting of liberalization, deregulation and privatization policies. The main focus of these reforms was on achieving macroeconomic stability and a reasonable rate of economic growth. Manufacturing sector is an important sector of the economy of Pakistan and contributes about 25% share in GDP. Agro-based industries have a special importance in...

The thriving agro-industry sector accounts for an essential part of the global gross domestic product, as need food and feed production is rising. However, industrial processing agricultural products requires use water at all stages, which consequently leads to vast amounts effluents with diverse characteristics, contain a significantly elevated organic content. This fact reinforces action cont...

Bioethanol and biobutanol hold great promise as alternative biofuels, especially for transport sector, because they can be produced from lignocellulosic agro-industrial residues. From techno-economic point of view, the bioprocess for biofuels production should involve minimal processing steps. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), which combines various processing steps such as pretreatment, hydrol...