Browsing by Subject "viljelijäkysely"

Nutrient recycling has a huge potential in Finland, but the recycling fertilizer market remains immature. Recycled nutrients should be developed into fertilizers and business activity around them to develop the market as well. Fertilizers must be profitable for the manufacturer and cost-effective for the farmer. Therefore, the fertilizers must be priced correctly. The aim of this study was to find out farmers willingness to pay for different types of manure-based recycling fertilizers, which factors affect farmers fertilizer choices and what are farmers opinions on recycling fertilizer attributes and use. Moreover, the pricing of existing recycling fertilizers was compared to their attributes like nutrient content and form. According to present results, the factors affecting farmers willingness to pay were form, eligibility to organic farming and price of the recycling fertilizer, as well as cultivated area and production sector of the farm, amount of manure produced on the farm, being part of environmental compensation scheme, and also the farmers relation to farming (part-time, full-time) and how long has he been farming. Farmers preferred fertilizers with dry form, and the willingness to pay of organic farmers was higher than that of traditional farmers. Willingness to pay for different recycling fertilizers was mostly much lower than market prices, but there are potential customers to be found, especially among organic farmers.