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Education for family farms and gender aspects in Croatia

Abstract Authors discuss about the educational structure in Croatia and education of family farm members. The points of research are lack of formal education in farm occupation and specific gender issues. Along with education levels of all population in Croatia which is improving since WW II. till nowadays, the agricultural population was following this trend but much slower. In farming occupation persons are in general are less educated than then in non farming occupations what relies also to gender aspects. Since very few studies in Croatia concern education of farmers, and rare respect to gender issues in education, our paper tried to highlight specifics regarding these two topics. From our research it is evident that women on family farms are educated mainly for non-agricultural occupations comparing to men who finish agricultural education twice times more. Correlation analysis showed highly related connections of age, education and family size to knowledge about farm tasks. Younger, more educated women have more knowledge about “ modern” farm tasks like bookkeeping, laws and taxes, selling agricultural products, while older and less educated have more knowledge about “ traditional” tasks like gardening, plant growing, animal breeding. Knowledge about mechanized work was graded as lowest among other farm tasks because it was seen as a masculine task and of no interest for women. Knowledge about ‘ ’ modern’ ’ tasks are necessary for market oriented farm business in this light woman’ s education becomes a limitation, therefore the non formal (extension service) and formal education systems (secondary and tertiary) should introduce new programmes and subjects in farm and household economics.

Education; family farms; Croatia

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