Economics of organic farming
A project of HDRA's Economics, Marketing and Policy team.
This
DEFRA funded project started in December 2002 and initially run for three
years. It is a sub-contract from the Institute of Rural Studies (IRS), Aberystwyth,
Wales.
HDRA will be responsible for the annual collection and analysis of physical
and financial data from 12 farms which grow organic field vegetables. The data
will be collected according to Farm Business Survey (FBS) techniques and processed
to produce whole farm accounts and economic efficiency and sustainability measures
such as net farm income and management and investment income. In addition gross
margins are calculated for organic vegetable crops grown on the farms.
These measures
are used to analyse and report on factors affecting profitability and trends
in performance. This information is used to write reports on the economics
of organic vegetable production. This will feed into the larger project, which
collects data from other organic enterprises: arable, dairy and other livestock
and compares the economic performance of the organic farms with conventional
ones.
Results will be published on our website and are used to inform presentations
to advisors, farmers and policy makers. Gross margins and enterprise costings
are used to update data in the Organic farms Management Handbook.
More details on DEFRA
Organic Research Projects website:
HDRA
Ryton Organic Gardens
Coventry
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
CV8 3LG
Tel: +44 (0) 24 7630 3517
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7663 9229
Email: research@hdra.org.uk
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