Abstract
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?
Highlights
During our research, we intended to explore the characteristics of the apricot plantations of theGönc production area, the knowledge and practice of farmers concerning variety use, their future changes and its specific reasons
It is important to emphasise that this current examination is a “situation report”, it cannot describe Source: Self edited based on Pénzes-Szalay, 2003 the temporal changes of the explored phenomena (Nagyné Demeter et al, 2010 a)
Based on the results of the correlation analyses, the answers given are proportionate among the educational levels of the respondents, the educational level does not determine the variety use of farms among the interviewees (Figure 4)
Summary
The knowledge and practice of farmers concerning variety use, their future changes and its specific reasons. This production area has a high importance in the Hungarian apricot production, Methods this is why the survey and evaluation of the variety use that basically determines the success of production could serve The Gönc production area is the sample area of examination as a guideline even on the national level, mainly in the issues (Figure 1).
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