Opportunitie for using green logistics in agribusiness for needs of sustainable

Abstract

The problem of the research offered to the scientific community specified the needs to identify opportunities of using the positive, economic effects of green logistics for the sustainable development of the economic system of the country as a whole. It is also necessary to specify the benefits of using green logistics for the results of functioning of economic entities involved in agricultural business. Scientific sources were analyzed, which made it possible to substantially fill the concept of green logistics with the purpose of own vision of this scientific category as a new form of socially responsible relations in agricultural business. The red line of the study is an attempt to substantiate the relevance of using green logistics as a tool for minimization of the economic system participants negative impact, namely agricultural enterprises, on the environment. The peculiarity of the initiated scientific research was to consider the specificity of the activities of agricultural enterprises, which is a reason for using green logistics to serve the economic needs. There have been identified the circumstances that cause to the transition from traditional to green logistics, which is a rational step of agribusiness. Improving the image of agribusinesses and the ability to appeal to foreign investors in order to gain financial opportunities to expand the limits of green logistics usage have been identified as having a positive economic effect. The consequences of the green logistics usage and the features of the transition to the model of green logistics in agribusiness are outlined.