Analysis of socioeconomic and environmental problems in farms applying soil health practices in EU
Dimitre Nikolov, Ekatherina Tzvetanova, Ivan Boevsky, Krasimir Kostenarov, Martin Banov, Magardich Huliyan, Laura Zavattaro, Josef Krasa, Tomas Dostal, Gunther Carl Liebhard, Peter Strauss, Zsofia Bakacsi, Jose Gómez
Abstract: The main aim of the report is to research socioeconomic and environmental problems in farms applying soil health practices in the EU-TUdi-project -partner countries - Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, and Spain. It was constructed farm typology related to soil heath using two statistical methods. The principal component analysis (PCA) constructed four socioeconomic which evaluate the socioeconomic and environmental problems. On the second step, it was applied cluster analysis (CA) to separate the farmers into homogeneous groups with similar characteristics. There were identified four farm types regarding soil health.
Keywords: agricultural systems; cluster analysis; farm typology; principal component analysis; socioeconomic problems; soil health
Citation: Nikolov, D., Tzvetanova, E., Boevsky, I., Kostenarov, K., Banov, M., Huliyan, M., Zavattaro, L., Krasa, J., Dostal, T., Liebhard, G. C., Strauss, P., Bakacsi, Z. & Gómez, J. (2024). Analysis of socioeconomic and environmental problems in farms applying soil health practices in EU. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 30(4), 568–579
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Date published: 2024-08-27
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