Abstract
Economic development requires following the principles of sustainable development for the socio-economic progress of a country. The organic farming sector is important in ensuring sustainable development. The advancement of organic farming is an important issue which combines the environment, human health and socio-economic development. It is a management method that facilitates supplying high-quality food products and aims at eliminating the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides. Organic farming has a beneficial impact on natural environmental protection, biodiversity conservation and food safety and quality improvement. The natural conditions in a region have a decisive impact on organic farming development. The purpose of this study is to assess the spatial diversity of organic farming and selected organic crop production in Poland by voivodship in 2013 and 2018. The statistical analysis of organic farming spatial diversity was conducted in a one- and two-dimensional approach. The analysis conducted made it possible to identify four clusters of voivodships based on the production volume of selected organic crops using the k-means algorithm. Graphs of observation depth contours in a sample were used to visualise and to analyse the two-dimensional data. STATISTICA software and selected packages of the R environment, available under the GPL licence, were used in the analysis. The analysis shows that the organic farm number and acreage in Poland is characterised by considerable variability between voivodships, with their noticeable concentration in several country regions. In the analysed years, organic farming was the most widespread in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship and the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
Highlights
Organic farming products provide a guarantee of safe food, which satisfies the needs of society and the environment
Organic farming is the main element of sustainable development of rural areas, aimed mainly at nature protection against pollution and the production of food with quality parameters desired by customers
Based on the obtained data, it can be stated that the number of organic farms and the area of agricultural land used by these farms is highly differentiated in individual voivodships (Table 1)
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Organic farming is the object of interest of many scientific disciplines. The development of the farming sector has a direct impact on the natural environment condition. Organic farming products provide a guarantee of safe food, which satisfies the needs of society and the environment. Organic farming is the main element of sustainable development of rural areas, aimed mainly at nature protection against pollution and the production of food with quality parameters desired by customers
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