Agriculture

People who have worked the land for millennia have endowed upon us the responsibility to take care of this land and preserve for the generations to come.

Agriculture is a sensible and prudent way of preserving the cultural landscape of TNP. In addition to its economic and nature conservation role, agriculture is also important for its social component and settlement value.
Integration of nature conservation measures into the process of countryside development is key to efficient nature protection.

Agriculture and countryside development
The vision of TNP with regard to agriculture and countryside development is as follows:

• to actively participate in the development activities of regions and/or local communities, which are related to nature and human activity in the natural environment;
• to closely cooperate with the local inhabitants as economic operators;
• to support farming as a prerequisite for the conservation of cultural landscape;
• to introduce sustainable development elements into the implementation of nature conservation measures;
• to raise public awareness, and to inform and educate the general public on the role of agriculture in nature protection and in cultural landscape conservation;
• to integrate the natural and cultural heritage of the TNP area in the rounded development of the wide area of the Julian Alps.