In ten years, the use of external labor has increased by 8%. Farm takeovers are increasingly taking place outside the family.
The very family face of La Ferme France is losing its vigour. While more than 40% of French farmers will reach or exceed retirement age within ten years, only one in five is certain to hand over their farm to a family member within three years. With the significant increase in the workload on French farms, this is one of the major lessons of the second part of the agricultural census, published this Friday by the Ministry of Agriculture.
In December, the ministry, which probes French farmers in depth every ten years, had already drawn up the outlines of a French agricultural model in profound evolution, with a 20% drop in the number of farmers in a decade, now under the 400,000. It also showed a fairly significant increase in farm size (+14%), to an average of 69 hectares. This time, the painting paints the portrait of a Farm France whose very family model is losing ground. Of…
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