Review article
Organic agriculture in Europe and in Croatia with emphasis on pomology
Kristina Batelja Lodeta
orcid.org/0000-0002-8488-3490
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Josip Gugić
; Veleučilište Marko Marulić, Knin, Hrvatska
Zlatko Čmelik
orcid.org/0000-0001-7333-5336
; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Organic agriculture is a farming system that tends to ethically acceptable, environmentally clean, socially equitable and economically justified agricultural production. Croatia belongs to the group of rare countries where organic agriculture is underdeveloped. The European Union legally regulated organic farming with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 of June 1991, but Croatia regulated it only in 2001 by Law on organic agriculture and food products (NN no. 12/01), and again in 2010 by adoption of the new law (NN no. 139/10). The European Commission recommended to the member states the maximum support for this form of agricultural production. According to MAFRD in 2009, the total area of organic agriculture accounted for 8.9% of orchards (1264 ha) where the most common are apples, pears, cherries, plums and products obtained from them. One of the major limiting factor for the development of organic agriculture is the market that is not organized and the lack of appropriate knowledge and skills. The developing potential are the young educated people interested in organic production and the growing number of consumers aware of organic production.
Keywords
organic production; potential, development
Hrčak ID:
78916
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Publication date:
10.3.2012.
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