From father to son, farms retain their national characteristics
Agreste cahiers n° 2 - juillet 2002
National agricultural structures continue to vary widely among the member states of the European Union.
National agricultural structures continue to vary widely among the member states of the European Union. Family agriculture is reproduced, but following different types of logic. Generations of farmers are renewed according to diverse national transmission practices. Thirty years of market unification within the framework of the CAP have not homogenised farms around one single common model. The farms of young farmers are larger and more efficient.
by Philippe Perrier-Cornet avec la collaboration de Jean-paul Daubard