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THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION

Dragutin Vincek ; Varaždinska županija
Miljenko Ernoić orcid.org/0000-0002-1419-4972 ; Razvojna agencija sjever – DAN

Sažetak

Local food is often referred to as home food. In fact, in the strict sense, it is about
the food that is produced right next to the point of sale, mainly in a direct way by the
producers themselves without a mediator in sales. In a broader sense, local food means
a food production at the local and regional area for a larger population of people, which
can be locally processed, and thus has a multiplier effect on the local community because
it creates employment opportunities. In Varazdin County daily consumed food
is valued at around € 736,000 or about 5.4 million kuna. Since the Croatian are food dependent
country, at least 50% of food is imported, which means that around 2.7 million
kuna per day was pay for the products that can generally be produced by themselves.
On a yearly basis it is nearly one billion of the new kuna on the small area such as a
county. The most interesting fact is that we do not need large investments for local food
production because we have the resource base (agriculture land) right near us. According
to some statistics, the added value of agricultural production is about 50%, compared
to the price payed by customers. It is due to the impact of soil, water, climate, air,
etc., increased the value of product and most importantly all these influences are free.

Ključne riječi

local food production; Varaždin County

Hrčak ID:

171601

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/171601

Datum izdavanja:

30.12.2016.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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