Production of agricultural products is still characterized by low quality, increasing use of chemicals in order to achieve mass production and higher yields per unit area, which ultimately leads to cost reduction and profit increase for producers, but at the expense of end-users' health. Integrated production as the production of ecologically acceptable and economically viable agricultural and food products is becoming a priority, and thus greater incentives are granted to this type of

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... n. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the situation on organic production in the Republic of Croatia, as well as the production of ecologically acceptable products in protected areas, with the aim of providing recommendations and argumentations to encourage forms of production that enter the realm of sustainable agriculture.