Evolution of Portuguese agriculture after accession to the European union and future challenges
1997
Avillez, F. (Technical Univ., Lisbon (Portugal). Inst. of Agronomy)
During the last decade, the Portuguese agriculture went through a substantial modernization and structural adjustment process of which major consequences were: an increase of the average size of the Portuguese farm from 6.3 ha in 1995, due to a 30 and 5 % reduction of the number and cultivated area of farms; an increase of the average availability of cultivated land per unit of agriculture labour from 4.0 ha in 1986 to 6.7 ha in 1995, due to a substantial decline (-43 %) in the total number of Portugal agricultural labour units; an increase in the irrigated crop systems and forestry, associated with a significant improvement of farm and post-farm infrastructures and technologies. As a consequence of those changes, Portuguese farm productivity and income improved from 1986 to 1996, but this positive evolution was not enough to assume a rent convergence with the EU average, the average income per farm being, in 1996, still less than 40 per cent of the EU average.
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