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The Interest of Family Farms in Organic Agriculture and Sustainable Agritourism Study Program

Agriculture is a strategic branch of the economy but also one of the major polluters of the environment. Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) redirects agriculture to increase product quality, diversify activities at farms and protect the environment. One of the ways to achieve the objectives of the CAP is a new study program Sustainable Agritourism. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: examine the interest of farmers to transfer to organic farming, ii) examine the interest of farmers in the Sustainable Agritourism study program. To collect primary data, an on-site and on-line self-administered questionnaire was used. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, the binomial test and the Pearson correlation. The results showed that the significant high proportion of farmers is interested in transferring to organic agriculture (62%) and that the proportion was in correlation with the proportion of farmers that need education in organic agriculture. Significantly higher percentage of farmers was interested in the new study (58%) and in motivating a family member to enroll (89%). The research showed that the farmers are interested in the transition to organic farming and that the new study of Sustainable agritourism would serve them to improve diversification at farms.

organic agriculture ; sustainable agritourism ; family farms ; new study

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