South Europe in Realization of Concept of Organic Farming

Authors

  • Željka Šiljković Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.166

Keywords:

conventional agriculture, organic production, Southern Europe

Abstract

More and more intensive degradation and soil contamination by conventional agriculturein the 1970s, encouraged the development of organic, eco-agriculture as one of the methods ofhealthy food production.Organic agriculture widens its influence from the form of foodproduction to one of the ways of socio-economic structure transformation of rural areas. Morethen 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 organiccultivation.

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2001)

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