Future pathways
Volos workshop
Cultivation practices
Subsidies based on cultivated acreage (area-based subsidies)
Extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers—ignoring Farm to Fork principles
Limited engagement with Integrated Management/organic farming—or nominal participation
Moderate to significant water use, depending on availability and infrastructure
Organizational issues
Cooperatives functioning as mechanisms for securing subsidies and negotiating prices
Personal and voluntary producer training without adherence to cultivation protocols
Work force
Use of laborers and mechanical harvesting with extensive spatial changes to the plot (e.g., uprooting trees, changing varieties to facilitate harvesting)
Use of nets and minimizing human labor input
Product
Integration into markets under existing commercial categories, selling non-standardized (bulk) products
Use of established advisory services (agronomists, chemists) to secure production and market entry