Sociology and Space, No. 125-126, 1994.
Original scientific paper
What Croatian Peasants Expect from the Public Agricultural Advisory Service
Ivan Magdalenić
Antun Petak
Milan Župančić
Abstract
The article presents the results of a
questionnaire that included 418 peasants
proportionately distributed in four
Croatian agricultural regions. The
researchers estimate that most of the
respondents belonged to the 10-15 per
cent Croatian peasants with above-average
land acreage, yonger and better educated,
more ambitious in production and
entrepreneurship. These are peasants who
have most need of an agricultural advisory
service, and through which such a Service
can best implement its function of
advancing Croatian family agriculture.
Research focused around the experiences
of peasants in using the Public Advisory
Service and what they expect from that
service in the future.
The most important results show that
Service advisors have to date provided
technical and agricultural-technology
advice more often than peasants asked for
it, while peasants asked for advice on
economic and legal issues more frequently
than this advice was available. As for
peasants’ future expectations from the
Service, economic questions continued in
the foreground (the possibility of
obtaining credits, advice on marketing
their products, and on more favourable
purchase of production materials), but
there was also interest in technological
advice. In that sense peasants from
various Croatian agricultural regions show
more similarities than differences.
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Hrčak ID:
119813
URI
Publication date:
9.12.1994.
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