Open AccessThe Role of Human Factor in the Innovation of Apricot Production-Empirical Study in a Disadvantage Area of East-Central European Country
Author(s) -
D. Nagyné-Demeter,
J. Nyéki,
M. Soltész,
Zoltán Szabó
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of horticultural science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2676-931X
pISSN - 1585-0404
DOI - 10.31421/ijhs/18/2/1050
Subject(s) - disadvantage , production (economics) , population , unemployment , work (physics) , per capita , agricultural economics , geography , business , agricultural science , economic growth , socioeconomics , economics , political science , demography , sociology , biology , engineering , mechanical engineering , law , macroeconomics
Hungary is a traditional fruit growing country for ages. As fruit sector has a very high hand work request and value added, it has an important role to decrease the elimination of unemployment and the lack of income in the disadvantage rural areas. The study was made in the year of 2009, the studied population consisted of the members of the fruit-grower marketing organization (Gyümölcsért Ltd.), that organizes growing and sales of stone fruits in Hungary. The number of studied population were 95 capita, the number of fi lled out and evaluated questionnaires was 35. By the composition of the questions both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. We tried to get answers to the following questions: Are the studied human factors (age, educational level, sex etc.) of growers, determined the extension of innovation of apricot production?