Investigación de la satisfacción de los nuevos agricultores sobre la política de los nuevos participantes en la agricultura

Chatzitheodoridis, Fotios; Kontogeorgos, Achilleas

Fotios Chatzitheodoridis

School of Agriculture, University of Western Macedonia, Florina, Greece. E-mail: fxtheodoridis@uowm.gr

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2008-1023

Achilleas Kontogeorgos

Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece. E-mail: akontoge@upatras.gr

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-0379

Figuras (4)
Tablas (6)

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Figure 1
Number of Greeks new farmers that joined to the new entrants’ policy according to the Council Regulations and the programming periods. Source: Authors’ own work based on MRDF official data.

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Figure 2
Methodological framework. Source: Own research.

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Figure 3
Satisfied and dissatisfied new farmers and the causes of their dissatisfaction. Source: Results analysis.

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Figure 4
Mean value of the indicative environmental practices of the survey respondents. Source: Results analysis.

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Table 1
Conditions for involved in the policy of new entrants according to the regulations and the changes between them in Greece

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Table 2
Greek new farmers’ demographic characteristics

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Table 3
Satisfied and dissatisfied new farmers ANOVA Analysis

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Table 4
Descriptive statistics for the two clusters and ANOVA analysis for the environmentally conscious clusters

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Table 5
Environmentally conscious clusters and satisfaction among Greek new farmers

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REGULATION REGULATION OBJECT PROGRAMMING PERIOD - OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME IN GREECE ARTICLE – AXIS - MEASURE COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 17 April 1972 (72/159/EEC) on the modernization of farms 1972-1978 -Article 14 of Regulation (European Union, 1972) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures 1985-1991 1ST CSF 1989-1993 -Article 7 of Regulation -2nd purpose of 1ST CSF (Developing agriculture by promoting structural changes) No 797/85 of 12 March 1985 (European Union, 1985) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures 1991-1996 Operational Programme 2nd CSF “Development of Agricultural sector 1994-1999” -Subprogram 1: Structural adjustments No 2328/91 of 15 July 1991 (European Union, 1991) -Measure 1: Improving the efficiency of agricultural structures -Action 2:Young farmers COUNCIL REGULATION on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures 1997-1999 -Subprogram 1: Structural adjustments Operational Programme 2nd CSF “Development of Agricultural sector 1994-1999” -Measure 1: Improving the efficiency of agricultural structures -Action 2:Young farmers COUNCIL REGULATION on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations 2000-2006 -Measure 3.1. (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 Operational Programme 3rd CSF “Rural Development – Reconstruction of the Countryside 2000-2006” (Improving of the composition of agricultural population age) (European Union, 1999) COUNCIL REGULATION on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) 2007-2013 -Measure 112 (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 (European Union, 2005) “Rural Development Programme 2007-2013” (§22-Setting up of young farmers) COUNCIL REGULATION on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 (European Union, 2005) 2014-2020 -Sub measure 6.1. (Establishment of young farmers) (EU) No 1305/2013 of 17 December 2013 (European Union, 2013a) “Rural Development Programme 2014-2020” COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 (European Union, 2008)and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (European Union, 2009) 2014-2020 Article 9 (Active farmers) No 1307/2013 and THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT of 17 December 2013 (European Union, 2013b) Chapter 5 (Payment for Young farmers) – Articles 50 and 51 Source: Authors’ own work based on EU official documents.

CHANGES	REGULATIONS
CHANGES	797/85 (European Union, 1985)	2328/91 (European Union, 1991)	950/97 (European Union, 1997European Union – EU. (1997). Council Regulation (EC) No 950/97 of 20 May 1997, on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures, L 142/1. Official Journal of the European Communities, Bruxelas. Retrieved in 2019, December 12, from http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1997/950/oj http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1997/950/o... )	1257/99 (European Union, 1999)	1698/2005 (European Union, 2005)	1305/2013 (European Union, 2013a)
Age (yrs)	18-40	18-40	18-40	18-40	18-40	18-40
Subsidy /premium for 1^st establish (€)	8.800	11.000	13.000	25.000	20.000-40.000	17.000-22.000
Compulsory remain to agriculture (yrs)	10	10	10	10	10	4-5
“Active farmer” status from 1^st establish	N	N	N	N	N	In 18 months
Business Plan (in max 5 years) 1^st target	N	N	N	N	Status of professional farmer
Business Plan (in max 5 years) 2^nd target	N	N	N	N	1 A.W.U. & 12.000 € Gross Added Value	8.000€+ 10%
Parallel non-agricultural employment	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Farm size or typical performance (in Annual Work Unit – A.W.U. or €)	1	1	0,5	0,5	0,5	8.000€
Professional seminars (in hours)	150	150	150	150	150	150
Environment protection	N	N	N	Y	Y	Y
Codes of Good Agricultural Practice (COGAP)	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

Respondents’ features	Count /Mean	Percentage / Std Dev
Male	157	61.8%
Married	130	51.2%
Age	32.83	5.5 (years)
Full time farmer	221	87.0%
Farming Experience	10 years	6 (years)
Education
< 9 years (Basic)	69	27.2%
9-12 Years (High School)	146	57.5%
12- 14 years (College)	29	11.4%
15-16 years (Higher)	10	3.9%
Previously occupied as:
Private employee	61	24.0%
Public employee	2	0.80%
Self employed	28	11.0%
House keeping	39	15.4%
Unemployed	41	16.1%
High school student	41	16.1%
Farmers	42	16.5%
Annual income (from agricultural activities):
<10,000 €	114	44.9%
10,001 to 20,000 €	88	34.6%
20,001 to 30,000 €	23	9.1%
>30,001€	27	10.6%

		Sum of Squares	Df	Mean Square	F	Sig.
Farming Experience	Between Groups	14.760	1	14.760	0.409	0.523
	Within Groups	9099.795	252	36.110
	Total	9114.555	253
Gender	Between Groups	0.412	1	0.412	1.743	0.188
	Within Groups	59.545	252	0.236
	Total	59.957	253
Age (in years)	Between Groups	4.646	1	4.646	0.153	0.696
	Within Groups	7663.732	252	30.412
	Total	7668.378	253
Exclusively occupied as farmer	Between Groups	0.151	1	0.151	1.329	0.250
	Within Groups	28.562	252	0.113
	Total	28.713	253
Annual Income	Between Groups	1.593	1	1.593	0.640	0.424
	Within Groups	627.088	252	2.488
	Total	628.681	253
Self Consumption	Between Groups	0.349	1	0.349	0.999	0.319
	Within Groups	88.029	252	0.349
	Total	88.378	253
GMO Awareness	Between Groups	0.358	1	0.358	2.113	0.147
	Within Groups	42.732	252	0.170
	Total	43.091	253
Willing to adopt a GM crop	Between Groups	0.207	1	0.207	1.735	0.189
	Within Groups	29.951	251	0.119
	Total	30.158	252
I understand that my agriculture practices affect the environment	Between Groups	12.639	1	12.639	4.747	0.030
	Within Groups	671.018	252	2.663
	Total	683.657	253
I feel responsible to protect the environment	Between Groups	17.244	1	17.244	5.236	0.023
	Within Groups	829.937	252	3.293
	Total	847.181	253

		N		Mean		Std. Deviation		Std. Error
I understand that agriculture practices affect the environment	Cluster 1	209		4.40		0.821		0.057
	Cluster 2	45		2.91		1.345		0.201
	Total	254		4.13		1.092		0.068
I feel responsible to protect the environment	Cluster 1	209		4.44		0.713		0.049
I feel responsible to protect the environment	Cluster 2	45		1.78		0.517		0.077
	Total	254		3.97		1.227		0.077
		Sum of Squares	df		Mean Square		F		Sig.
I understand that agriculture practices affect the environment	Between Groups	81.766	1		81.766		93.795		0.000
	Within Groups	219.683	252		0.872
	Total	301.449	253
I feel responsible to protect the environment	Between Groups	263.412	1		263.412		565.440		0.000
	Within Groups	117.395	252		0.466
	Total	380.807	253

			Satisfied Young Farmers		Total
			Yes	No	Total
Environmentally Conscious clusters	No	Count	27	18	45
		% within Environmentally Conscious clusters	60.0%	40.0%	100.0%
		% within satisfied young farmers	14.2%	28.1%	17.7%
	Yes	Count	163	46	209
		% within Environmentally Conscious clusters	78.0%	22.0%	100.0%
		% within satisfied young farmers	85.8%	71.9%	82.3%
Total		Count	190	64	254
		% within Environmentally Conscious clusters	74.8%	25.2%	100.0%
		% within satisfied young farmers	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

[1] Source: Authors’ own work based on Strategic Documents of Rural Development Programmes.

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