Survey about the most important CCPs of the Agricultural Certification Systems in Greece
Abstract
Aim of our research was to compare the Critical Control Points (CCPs), between the three agricultural certification systems: Organic Agriculture (OA), Integrated Management (IM) and Conventional Agriculture (CA). For the collection of the information we used non-structured and in-depth interviews, as well as closed-ended questionnaires. A total of 25 people from various fields, always related to agriculture and particularly to certification, attended the interviews. Among those who participated in the interviews were academics, directors of certification organisations and cooperatives, journalists and others. Correspondingly, the sample of persons who completed the questionnaires included people involved in the agricultural sector (eg. producers, processors etc.), constituted of a representative sample of our research target group. Concluding, we found that in Greece the most important CCPs of the three agricultural certification systems were: a) the subsidy in OA production, b) the pricing of IM products and c) the lack of state control in CA.
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