European Union has supported for many years via the rural development strand of the Common
Agricultural Policy New Entrant Schemes in order to provide assistance to help young farmers to establish
their own agricultural holdings. Younger people have a longer planning horizon and tend to invest more
heavily in business growth than comparable older age groups. Even more new farmers participating in such
policy schemes are usually younger (33 years old for this study) well educated (72% have attended high
school and colleges) and consequently are more willing to adopt new technologies (see for example
Michailidis et al., 2014).Therefore such policy measures could attract to agriculture new entrants that will
help to restructure agricultural sector. Even more, satisfaction of new entrants could demonstrate their
commitment to a future in farming. In this way, satisfied new entrants in agricultural could accept to
undertake some risk in the form of loan capital repayment. This risk by new farmers could also improve
investment decision-making, improving economic efficiency and performance of the agricultural sector.
To sum up, this paper examined new farmers’ perceptions about new famers’ European policy and finally
to identify which factors such as demographic characteristics and environmental practices determine
satisfaction for their involvement with this policy measure. The analysis results showed that the only variables
that determine satisfaction are the responsibility to protect the environment and the farmers’ awareness that
their daily farm practices affect the environment. The other variables used, “demographic” and other “farm
practices” proved to be statistically insufficient to discriminate satisfied and not young farmers.