Dimitre Nikolov1, Ekatherina Tzvetanova1, Ivan Boevsky2, Krasimir Kostenarov2, Martin Banov3, Magardich Huliyan4, Laura Zavattaro5, Josef Krasa6, Tomas Dostal6, Gunther Carl Liebhard7, Peter Strauss7, Zsofia Bakacsi8 and Jose Gómez9
1 New Bulgarian University, “Administration and Management” Department, 1608, Sofia, Bulgaria
2 New Bulgarian University, “Economics” Department, 1608, Sofia, Bulgaria
3 Agricultural Academy,”N. Poushkarov” Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnologies and Plant Protection, 1331, Sofia, Bulgaria
4 National Agricultural Advisory Service, 1331, Sofia, Bulgaria
5 University of Turin, Department of Veterinary Sciences, 10124, Torino, Italy
6 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of landscape water conservation, Prague 6, Czech Republic
7 The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management, 1190, Vienna, Austria
8 Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, “Environmental Informatics” Department, 1525, Budapest, Hungary
9 Spanish National Research Council, Sustainable Agriculture Institute, 14004 Cordoba, Spain
Nikolov, D., Tzvetanova, E., Boevsky, I., Kostenarov, K., Banov, M., Huliyan, M., Zavattaro, L., Krasa, J., Dostal, T., Liebhard, G. C., Strauss, P., Bakacsi, Z. & Gómez, J. (2024). Analysis of socioeconomic and environmental problems in farms applying soil health practices in EU. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 30(4), 568–579
The main aim of the report is to research socioeconomic and environmental problems in farms applying soil health practices in the EU-TUdi-projectI – partner countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, and Spain. It was constructed farm typology related to soil heath using two statistical methods. The principal component analysis (PCA) constructed four socioeconomic which evaluate the socioeconomic and environmental problems. On the second step, it was applied cluster analysis (CA) to separate the farmers into homogeneous groups with similar characteristics. There were identified four farm types regarding soil health.