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Importance and Need for Rural Development Instruments Under the CAP: A Survey of Farmers' Attitudes in Marginal Areas of Greece
Author(s) -
Dimara Efthalia,
Skuras Dimitris
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1999.tb00815.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , business , agriculture , rural development , quality (philosophy) , rural area , agricultural extension , marketing , survey instrument , population , economic growth , human capital , agricultural economics , economics , geography , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , demography , archaeology , epistemology , sociology , law
The present work assesses the attitudes towards importance and need for providing agricultural development instruments other than traditional grant aid mechanisms in rural areas. Assistance in marketing farm produce, provision of extension services on new agricultural technology, agricultural training and provision of quality standards are four of the instruments examined. The importance and need for providing these instruments depends upon producers' human capital accumulation and farm characteristics. The analysis indicates that different instruments may apply to different parts of the rural population and thus a flexible, multi‐instrument and selective rural development policy may be required.