Introduction to Young Farmers

Received : 09/07/2019 Accepted : 25/09/2019 The study was carried out with the aim of determining the tendencies to stay in agriculture by examining the socio-economic characteristics of the producers who applied to the supporting program of young farmers.

We discuss how young farmers can contribute to forest conservation through sustainable harvesting of cinnamon.

Young farmers are willing to pay more for soil quality improvement than old farmers.

, young farmer payments (Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pillar I) and measures “Setting up of young farmers” and “Early retirement” (CAP Pillar II).

The number of young farmers has decreased over recent decades in several developed countries such as the United States and European countries.

However, some of the programmes have been criticized for not providing enough support, particularly because they do not adequately account for the diverse profiles of young farmers.

The results show that farmers who spontaneously implemented stone bunds are: 1) young farmers committed to soil conservation, 2) intrinsically motivated dynamic farmers ready to change their future and improve productivity and food security, and 3) farmers with relatively limited productive resources such as farmland, labor and livestock, but with more willingness to improve their agricultural production, relying on available resources and social capital.

Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance.

Almost all groups in society now use social media in their day to day activities, and one group that has been greatly impacted is young farmers.

Perceived importance of personal safety increased in young farmers, with high education level, and large land area as well as with high perception of risk, knowledge of pesticide toxicity, seminar in pesticide use, access to internet, and perceived usefulness of PPE.

It is difficult for young farmers to inherit technics from skilled farmers, since the population of farmers is decreasing, and their average age is increasing in Japan.

The paper presents an analysis of the farms manager by young farmers.

However, an interesting phenomenon in West Bandung Regency is that horticulture farming is beginning to be sought after by young farmers.

Generational renewal is a key issue; however, the present form of young farmers scheme needs to be refined to be more effective.

However, it is doubtful whether young farmers from non-farm family will experience the same opportunity.

In conducting agribusiness, young farmers are connected with each other in a farmer group.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze agricultural policy measures aimed at young farmers and to compare the support system of the European Union and the Republic of Serbia.

Recently, horticulture farming, especially in Indonesia, are facing various obstacles, including the lack of young farmers regeneration, agricultural land decreasing, and climate change.

Despite existing support policy measures, young farmers (YF) face barriers which hamper the establishment and consolidation of their farming enterprises.

In newly industrialised countries in Asia, programmes to support the establishment of young farmers are still emerging.

Therefore this paper aims (1) to find out the distribution of characteristics of young farmers in Malang Regency, (2) to know the managerial capacity and empowerment of young farmers in horticultural agriculture in Malang Regency.

The results showed that the level of education of farmers is high (80%), the number of young farmers (75%), high extension frequency (100%), unspoiled soil (100%), natural water (100%), high selling price (100%) and high profits (100%) support the interest of farmers in organic rice farming in Sambirejo District.

Promoting the incorporation of young farmers into the livestock sector would be crucial for ensuring that these challenges are met in the best possible way.

In Spain, the problem of scarcity of young people in the countryside is even greater, being the number of young farmers lower than 7%.

Vegetable production is the main source of income for some of these young farmers.

The result shows that Cloud Computing adoption among the young farmers is greater while it is lower among the old farmers in Ireland.