Geoadria, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2001.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.166
South Europe in Realization of Concept of Organic Farming
Željka Šiljković
Abstract
More and more intensive degradation and soil contamination by conventional agriculture in the 1970s, encouraged the development of organic, eco-agriculture as one of the methods of healthy food production.Organic agriculture widens its influence from the form of food production to one of the ways of socio-economic structure transformation of rural areas. More then 3 million hectares of cultivable soil in Europe is under organic production. South-European countries, esp. Italy and Spain, have the greatest portion of areas under organic cultivation.
Keywords
conventional agriculture; organic production; Southern Europe
Hrčak ID:
9609
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2001.
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