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Boost by pandemic: Family Farms on the Path of Innovations

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused adverse changes in the operations of the family farms. As the primary actors of the agricultural sector, they met several challenges such as closure of business cooperation with the HoReCa distribution chains, labour shortages, closure of primary sales channels, and inadequate storage of fast- perishable products. One of the main strategies for survival and stability, family farmers has introduced innovations in their family business operations. The results of the study carried out on the sample of 16 family farmers in the first wave of pandemic, showed that the technological and social innovations, followed by institutional innovations were the primary survival strategies implemented by the family farms to tackle the obstacles imposed by the pandemic.

pandemic ; family farms ; innovations ; strategies

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