Agriculture Reference
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Current Status of Advisory and Extension Services for Organic Agriculture in Europe and Turkey
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58541
Organic Area
Farm
Avarage
Farm Size Scale (ha)
Country
Hectares
%
Number
%
Spain
1330774
15.97
25291
12.05
52.6
Italy
1106684
13.28
43029
20.51
25.7
Germany
947115
11.37
21047
10.03
45.0
UK
721726
8.66
5156
2.46
140.0
France
677513
8.13
16446
7.84
41.2
Austria
518757
6.23
21000
10.01
24.7
Czech Republic
398407
4.78
2665
1.27
149.5
Sweden
391524
4.70
4816
2.30
81.3
Poland
367062
4.41
17092
8.15
21.5
Greece
326252
3.92
23665
11.28
13.8
Portugal
209090
2.51
1902
0.91
109.9
Romania
168288
2.02
3078
1.47
54.7
Finland
166171
1.99
4087
1.95
40.7
Latvia
160175
1.92
4016
1.91
39.9
Denmark
156433
1.88
2694
1.28
58.1
Slovakia
145490
1.75
363
0.17
400.8
Hungary
140292
1.68
1617
0.77
86.8
Lithuania
129055
1.55
2652
1.26
48.7
Estonia
66767
0.80
1277
0.61
52.3
Netherlands
51911
0.62
1413
0.67
36.7
Ireland
47864
0.57
1328
0.63
36.0
Belgium
41459
0.50
997
0.48
41.6
Slovenia
29388
0.35
2096
1.00
14.0
Croita
14193
0.17
885
0.42
16.0
Bulgaria
12320
0.15
379
0.18
32.5
Cyprus (South)
3816
0.05
732
0.35
5.2
Luxemburg
3614
0.04
77
0.04
46.9
Malta
26
0.00
12
0.01
2.2
Total EU-28
8307943
100.00
210501
100.00
39.7
Turkey
325 831
3.92
35 565
16.90
9.2
Source: [26, 57].
Table 1.
The Avarage Scale and Number of Farm and Land Area Under Organic Management in EU and Turkey (2009)
In table 2, developments of organic farming in EU and Turkey were examined during last 14
years. Organic farming area and number of holdings main countries of the EU were showed
about 5.9 and 3.5 folds increases during 1995-2009. Turkey has experienced an increase in the
organic farming area (21.4 folds) but average organic farm size showed a decrease during the
same period.
