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This research intended to evaluate to what extent
the managers in family farms tend to adopt practices of
organic farming and identify the possible factors that might
be associated with those choices. For that, a survey was
undertaken in Portuguese and Spanish municipalities. The
participation, by direct interview, was voluntary and 125
valid responses were obtained distributed as: 30 in Viseu
(PT), 30 in Braga (PT), 30 in Barcelos (PT), 16 in Pontevedra
(SP) and 19 in Padrón (SP). For the treatment of the data,
basic descriptive statistics tools were used in combination
with crosstabs and chi square tests. Also tree classifications
were conducted following the Classification and Regression
Trees algorithm. In all tests a level of significance of 5% was
considered. The results identified factors that influenced
the behaviour of the managers in family farms towards an
approximation to organic farming practices, which were
the level of education and municipality, found as major
determinants of the level of compliance with organic
farming practices. Also, other factors like age or gender
influence, although to a lesser extent, the compliance with
organic farming. These results were the same for the chi-
square tests or the tree classification analysis, and they
thus indicate that improvements could be achieved towards
a more expressive adoption of organic farming practices if
planned to target the influential factors identified.
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Keywords
Organic agriculture Cultural practices Classification Family agriculture Soil preparation
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Guiné, R.P.F. & Costa, C.A. (2018). Compliance of agricultural practices used in family farms with those recommended in organic farming. Open Agriculture, 3 (1), 368-377. doi:10.1515/opag-2018-0041.