Attitude of Evros' s Farmers for the Genetically Modified Trees

Genetically modified trees are now one more expression of human intervention in nature. As for other people is a suicidal mood at the cost of profit maximization, for others is an inevitable trend for the survival of continuing growing world population that gathers several advantages, a survey of those directly involved in the primary sector, farmers, and deemed necessary. The implementation of this research includes the completion of 100 questionnaires from farmers in the region of Evros. Then, using the widely used Excel and SPSS software packages are processed research results with the discovery of useful correlations. The results show that in the region of Evros opinions of farmers who have negative attitude to the cultivation of genetically modified forest trees is much more (70) versus those with positive (30). Both trends express their concern on different characteristics, the systematic mapping of which is attempted in this work. The intension to cultivate genetically modified trees in relation to the demographic characteristics of the farmers, the farm size, the farm size and the type of cultivation are also investigated.