CEJA Disseminated MULTIFARM_EU Project at Fiera in Campo in Vercelli, Italy
As part of its dissemination activities, CEJA has recently attended one of the biggest agricultural fairs in Italy. The annual event called Fiera in Campo in Vercelli was held on 27-28 February and 1 March 2015 and it was organised by CEJA member organisation ANGA. This year’s edition was dedicated to issues concerning rice-growing and organic agriculture and the fair always proves very popular with national as well as international public. The exhibition is each year visited by over 20 thousand people. The purpose of CEJA’s presence at the fair was to disseminate the goals and outcomes of the MULTIFARM_EU project to farmers, stakeholders and general public who attended the fair. In our survey with a sample of 100 participants we registered that about half of the public were farmers or studying to become farmers. 32% of those asked said they had heard of the multifunctionality concept in agriculture before and 30% believed that it could help bring extra income for farmers and develop their farms.