{"id":14416,"date":"2023-06-15T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/europe-loses-5-3-million-farms-in-15-years\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:55:39","slug":"europe-loses-5-3-million-farms-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/europe-loses-5-3-million-farms-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe loses 5.3 million farms in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported in a recent publication that the number of agricultural holdings in the EU <strong>had decreased by 37% in the last 15 years<\/strong>, with which in 2020 there were barely 9.1 million ; that is, from 2005 to that last year they <strong>had decreased by 5.3 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14411 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Explotaciones-agrarias.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Explotaciones-agrarias.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Explotaciones-agrarias-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Explotaciones-agrarias-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroganaderia.eu\/ganaderia\/euroganaderia\/europa-pierde-5-3-millones-de-explotaciones-agrarias-en-15-anos_11787_0_0_0_1_143372_5056728469884_in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euroganader\u00eda explains on its website<\/a>. Some of the problems that are being seen and that explain this decrease may be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The aging of the population dedicated to this activity.<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient generational replacement to replace those who stop working in the agricultural sector due to age.<\/li>\n<li>Unstoppable mechanization and technification process, which requires less and less labor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Euroganader\u00eda also points to other, more illogical reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its reforms, increasingly complex and excessively bureaucratic.<\/li>\n<li>Growing demands in the field of the environment and animal welfare of the strategies &#8220;From farm to table&#8221; or &#8220;Biodiversity&#8221; of the European Green Pact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other aspects for this considerable reduction in the area dedicated to agricultural exploitation would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drought<\/li>\n<li>Low prices\/high production costs at source<\/li>\n<li>The Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>The consequences of the Covid pandemic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported in a recent publication that the number of agricultural holdings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097,1298,1137,1124,1112,1575,1110,1096,1713,1111],"tags":[1100,1117,1470,2031],"class_list":["post-14416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anafric-en","category-cattle-en","category-meat-en","category-meat-companies-en","category-ovino-caprino-en","category-porci-en","category-porcino-en","category-sector-en","category-sheep-en","category-vacuno-en","tag-anafric-en","tag-empresas-carnicas-en","tag-europa-en","tag-explotaciones-agrarias-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14419,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions\/14419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}