Organic farming (Lehocká & Klimeková, 2004) is also in Slovakia a prospective management mode, which is
one of the possible solutions to address the impact of agriculture on the environment but also economic and social
aspects by creating a new market for organic products, including the creation of new jobs, contributing to the
development of rural areas and the protection of all components of the environmental. Despite the good potential of
organic farming in the SR, Slovak organic farming has several weaknesses related to insufficient implementation of
legislative, institutional and economic instruments that limit its development.
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the implementation of support of organic farming in Slovakia in the context of
sustainable development. The object of our investigation was to assess the areas defined in Figure 1, from the
following points of view