... by adding a new branch to their farm. "The farmers who want to survive will survive!" a Polish professor said. Most of the farmers we saw were very motivated but a lot of them were also just starting to make their company more competive. For example by producing medicinal herbs and making products of it. Another remarkable point is that the farmers are not organised that well in cooperation's to sell their products. For example we have been on a market where farmers can sell their vegetables by offering it to i.e. grocery people. The climate is not ideal for good agriculture/ horticulture because almost every year there are quite dry in the summers and others are too wet. Next to this the amount of fertilizer applied is low, les than 100 kg NPK/ha/year and the used pesticides are below 1 kg/ha/year the main reason for this is that farmers can't ...

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