Advisory services for organic agriculture in the European Union and Turkey

ÖZÇATALBAŞ O., BRUMFIELD R., KARATURHAN B.

JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT, cilt.8, sa.2, ss.507-511, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.507-511
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Organic agriculture, advisory services, EU, Turkey
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Organic farming has developed very rapidly in all European countries since the beginning of 1990s. In Turkey it showed significant increase in recent years. Worldwide, the global market was valued at 23 billion dollars. In the European Union, the most important advisory agencies for organic farming are implemented by private units (38.4%), farmers'organisations (28.3%) and the Ministry. However, advisory service for organic products in Turkey is implemented mainly by foreign importer firms, which is the most important advisory unit. Considering the growing domestic demand for organic products in the medium and long term in Turkey, various advisory services should be established similar to those in EU countries.

All over the world, one of the main purposes of extension is to increase the level of living standards of the rural family through non-formal education.Extension has a very crucial role to play in sustainable development and organic agriculture. For that reason, extension activity is implemented bydifferent institutions. Extension systems worldwide are operated by governmental (86%) and non-governmental (14%) organizations. In this paper,allelopathy is accepted as a technology to implement for weed control and biological control of other useful traits. Allelopathy can be defined as acomponent of biological control in which plants are used to reduce the vigor and development of other plants. Allelopathy also covers the direct orindirect chemical effects of one plant on the germination, growth, or development of neighboring plants. Many crops have been reported as showingallelopathic properties at one time or another. For that reason, in this study, we investigate important allelopathic traits for agricultural extension, thepossibilities of improving allelopathy extension, and the adoption and diffusion of allelopathy.

 Key words:

 Extension of allelopathy, farmer training, adoption of allelopathy, diffusion of innovation