Good farm

Rural livelihoods and economic structure must be reformed in order to ensure livelihoods in rural areas. The full transformation of the potential of the bioeconomy into a business activity requires a new kind of cooperation within and between primary agricultural and forestry production and value chains, faster application of research data and cross-sectoral development work. The bioeconomy is based on sustainable development, material and energy efficiency, the development of which requires innovation.

The aim of the project is to provide information for training and counseling, so that the essential factors in the development of the profitability of agricultural entrepreneurs can be caught immediately. By identifying the factors in which a farm entrepreneur must succeed in order to be able to operate profitably in a variety of operating environments, we can highlight this knowledge through training and counseling.

The project identifies the main profitability bottlenecks for farms and identifies new opportunities for entrepreneurship to exploit the farm's entire balance sheet assets (land, field and water assets). The results of the project will be widely disseminated so that companies and various developers can take advantage of them.

The core task of the project is to produce indicators that can be used to look at how a farm that has all the resources it needs to operate can operate profitably in different production directions, with different activities and in different types of rural environments.

Models produced by the project:

• Metrics for looking at a “good farm”

Studies produced by the project:

• Farm as part of Finnish society and the rural community in different operating environments

The realization of the project's objectives is monitored through steering group meetings, reports and the Natural Resources Centre's own electronic tools that measure the realization of the project.