WIT Press


Agricultural Typologies To Describe The Evolution Of Agricultural Systems In Andalusia

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

64

Pages

10

Published

2003

Size

561 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ECO030272

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

C. R. Garcia

Abstract

Agricultural typologies to describe the evolution of agricultural systems in Andalusia C. R. Garcia Department of Business Administration, ETEA, University of Co'rdoba, Spain Abstract Andalusia is a very important agrarian region in the south of Europe. The cultivated area is above 4.1 million ha. (46.8% of the total surface of the region) where more than 400,000 farms develop their business (Garcia [5]). The existence of many small agricultural enterprises (more than 75% have less than 5 ha. of total cultivated area) makes it very difficult to analyse the Andalusian farm structure and the impact of new regulations (Garcia [6]). Approximately, it is easy to know the main productive profiles of Andalusian farms: more than 30% of them concentrate on olive trees, over 10% are mainly interested in cereals, oil seeds and legumes, and so on. But it is very difficult to understand how these crops are combined in an agrarian enterprise: there are "many agricultures" in Andalusia (Garcia [5]). In orde

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