“…In general, it is believed that social, economic, and psychological factors have affected the decisions of farmers to convert to organic farming (BOLWIG; GIBBON & JONES, 2009;DAXINI et al, 2019;DESSART;BARREIRO-HURLÉ & VAN BAVEL, 2019;HOME et al, 2018). These factors are comprised of maintenance of family farm (BOUTTES; DARNHOFER & MARTIN, 2018), the farm's characteristics (CHMIELINSKI et al, 2019), the farm's economic potential (KERSELAERS et al, 2007), environmental concerns (MEIER et al, 2015), employment potential (FINLEY et al, 2018), reduction of nitrogen and pesticide use (MULLER et al, 2017), maintenance of the family farm's ecological balance (NELSON & STOCK, 2018), provision of healthy food for the family (KASHIF et al, 2020), and protection of local biodiversity from further degradation (CHAPPELL & LAVALLE, 2011). Other studies have demonstrated that farmers are motivated to adopt organic production not only for economic and financial reasons (LUND; HEMLIN & LOCKERETZ, 2002& PADEL, 2001, but also for health, ideological and philosophical reasons (RIGBY;YOUNG & BURTON, 2001;WILIER & GILLMOR, 1992).…”