COORDINATING PARTICIPANT RELATIONS IN THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF REGIONAL FARMER’S MARKETS IN BULGARIA

Farmer's markets occupy a special place in the classification of markets for agricultural products. This paper aims to investigate the feasible models of farmer's markets in terms of the degree of coordination among the stakeholders. The authors have set the following objectives: 1) to identify the legal and administrative limita- tions; 2) to assess agricultural producers' readiness to participate in farmer's markets; 3) to analyze the models of stakeholder coordination in the organization of a farmer's market; 4) to approbate a function model of a regional farmer's market