not farmers

Questionnaire

Gender:

a) Male

b) Female

Education:

a) Elementary School (K-6)

b) Middle School/High School (7-12)

c) College/University

Permanent resident of Chios Island?

a) Yes

b) No

5. Primary Employment:

a) Agronomist

b) Researcher – Professor at a Research Institute

c) Private sector employee

d) State/Government employee

e) Self-employed

6. Secondary employment:

a) None

b) Farmer

c) Citrus fruit farmer

d) Other

7. Are you positively inclined to organic farming practice in your region?

a) Yes

b) No

c) I don’t know

8. Would you concur with the application of any one or a combination of organic control method(s) at a neighboring orchard to prevent environmental contamination?

a) Yes

b) No

9. Do you know what insect mass trapping is?

a) Yes

b) No

10. In your opinion, would mass trapping control efforts with the attractant BioDelear, of the Mediterranean fly control technique, contribute to a reduction in the production costs of citrus fruit cultivation?

a) Yes

b) No

c) I don’t know

11. Would you endorse the use of an environmentally friendly technique by regional fruit growers to control the Mediterranean fruit fly?

a) Yes

b) No

c) I don’t know

12. In particular, would you accept to use it in your own practices an environmentally friendly mass trapping attractant such as Biodelear?

a) Yes

b) No

13. Would you expect a decrease in the income of local agronomists as a result of the use of the attractant Biodelear?

a) Yes

b) No

c) I don’t know

14. Would either the use of the attractant or the non-use of chemical compound insecticides contribute to the creation of a healthier environment in your area?

a) Agree

b) Disagree

c) I don’t know

15. Would you expect the use of the mass trapping technique with Biodelear to improve the quality of the produced citrus fruit / the quality of the citrus fruit yield?

a) Yes

b) No

c) Quality will remain roughly the same

16. Would you expect the use of the mass trapping technique with Biodelear to result in increased market price of citrus fruit?

a) Yes

b) No

c) End-consumer prices will remain roughly the same

17. Would you expect enhanced quality of life in your area as resulting from applying the mass trapping technique and using an attractant (such as the attractant Biodelear)?

a) Yes

b) No

c) Standard of living will remain roughly the same

19. Do you expect the use of the mass trapping technique with the attractant Biodelear to contribute to the wider endorsement of better, non-toxic, environmentally and human friendly farming practices?

a) Yes

b) No

c) Farming practices will not be significantly affected

20. Having attended the Life – Biodelear programme how would you rate its application?

a) Excellent

b) Good

c) Mediocre

d) Not yet certain

e) I don’t know

21. Your satisfaction level from the results of the Life – Biodelear programme could be recorded as:

a) Excellent

b) Good

c) Mediocre

d) Not yet certain

e) I don’t know

Questionnaire

18. On a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being “the greatest benefit obtained”, what do you think are the benefits from using the attractant Biodelear?

After-life plan