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Abstract(s)
The aim of this work was to identify procedures
adopted by family farms in the centre and north of Portu-
gal and Galicia (Spain), and to verify whether they resem-
ble those used in organic farming. A checklist was pre-
pared in Portuguese and Spanish and applied personally
to managers of family farms. The participation was volun-
tary and 125 valid responses were collected.
The results show that farmers included in the study
owned small family farms where labour is mainly per-
formed by the family, and tended to adopt, in general,
good agricultural practices, many of which are common to
organic farming, such as crop rotation, avoidance of GMO
or avoidance of phytoregulators. However, they failed to
adopt some important practices, including the use of seeds
inoculated with mycorrhizae, composting, biological and
biotechnical control or avoidance of chemical control for
plant protection. It was further concluded that gender and
age of the farmers did not significantly influence the type
of agricultural practices, contrarily to the level of educa-
tion and region, which were significantly associated with
many of the cultural interventions investigated.
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Keywords
family farming technical itinerary checklist cultural practices
Citation
Guiné RPF, Gaião D, Costa DVTA, Correia PMR, Guerra LT, Correia HE, Costa CA. Bridges between family farming and organic farming: a study case of the Iberian Peninsula. Open Agriculture, 4(1), 727-736