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Strong growth in the number of agricultural firms
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The number of farms organised as business firms continues to progress. With 130,000 units in 2005, these farms account for 40% of professional farms.
Because of the flexibility that they offer, “limited-liability farms” (EARL : exploitation agricole à responsabilité limitée) have seen spectacular growth and now outnumber “farms grouped for shared exploitation” (Gaec : Groupement agricole d’exploitation en commun). Farms organised as business firms are large, averaging 180 hectares of wheat equivalent, twice the size of individual professional farms. Specialised in pigs and poultry and field cropping, they are concentrated in the north of France. Six out of ten have recourse to non-family employees, permanent or seasonal, but it is mainly one-person firms that employ permanent staff.
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