Wykształcenie konsumentów żywności ekologicznej z województwa podkarpackiego a czynniki wpływające na jej zakup

The study attempts to define factors impacting the choice of organic food by consumers from the Podkarpackie province, depending on their level of education. To this end, a survey was conducted in the Podkarpackie province in the second quarter of 2015. It involved 308 organic food consumers. It was found that consumers with university education more often paid attention to food safety and were more open to new products. However, consumers with secondary education had been purchasing organic food for the longest period of time. The highest percentage of respondents with vocational education bought this kind of food at least once week, spending more than PLN 201 a month on it. The opinion that it was necessary to introduce new products to the existing range of organic food prevailed in this group of respondents. High price was the most common barrier to the purchase of organic food.