IN THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURAL ENTREPRENEURS: VERMICULTURE
Abstract
Economic development is one of the most important problems of countries. The fact that
economic development has to materialize with scarce resources differentiates the interest in the
environment. While the lack of resources causes comprehending environment as an "obstacle",
actually the answer to the problem comes from nature again. Finding a solution to this situation by
applying the loops in the ecological life to production actvities, at the same time it can turn into an
opportunity.
Agriculture is one of the basic sectors which have been ongoing since the existence of human.
Approaches which emphasize the concept of sustainability in agricultural production and encourage
the organic production methods become common in the whole world. The fact that earthworms'
capacity of converting organic waste and residues into a high quality valuable product in short time
was understood ensured the rising a new agricultural production sector called vermiculture.
Sustainability just can be applied with the integration of the social, economic and
environmental dimensions. It is seen that in environmental sense with its contribution to the waste
management, in economic sense with the emerging caste and worm accumulation and in social sense
with the agricultural practices which support community health, vermiculture is a model that is
suitable for sustainability. By supporting in the context of agricultural entrepreneurship, social
dimension should be supported with its effects on employment. Vermiculture awareness must be
increased and supported because of its sensitivity to the environment and because of the fact that it is
faster and more costless than many entrepreneurial activities. In this study, vermiculture was examined
in the context of environmental production and agricultural entrepreneurs.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
28 Nisan 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Nisan 2016
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2