Farm structure in Bulgaria 2005

European Commission Eurostat

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Agriculture and fisheries
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Bulgarie
• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• Langue: English

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Statistics in focus

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES

43/2007

Agriculture

Authors GyörgyBENOIST Pol MARQUER

C o n t e n t s Table 1 – Labour force by size of the farms………………3

Table 2 – Agricultural holdings by size…………………….4

Table 3 – Land use by size of the farms…………………5

Table 4 – Livestock by size of the farms…………………6

Table 5 – Subsistence farming.7

Manuscri pt completed on: 2  7.03.2007 Data extracted on: 25.01.2007 ISSN 19770316 Catalogue number: KSSF07043ENC © European Communities, 2007

Fa r m s t r u c t u r e i n B u l g a r i a – 2 0 0 5 84% of the agricultural land is in farms of 100 ha or more

This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2005. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Bulgaria. A similar publication was issued in November 2005 presenting the results of the FSS 2003 in Bulgaria. * * * In October-November 2005 in Bulgaria, about 118.1 thousand* agricultural holdings had an economic size of at least 1 European Size Unit (ESU). - These holdings employed 246.4 thousand AWUs (annual work units), the equivalent of 246.4 thousand persons working full time; - they made use of about 2.5 million ha of agricultural area, which is on average 21.1 ha per holding (compared to 16.7 ha in 2003).

Among these 118.1 thousand agricultural holdings - 21% made use of less than one AWU, while 32% made use of 2 or more AWUs; - 81% used less than 5 ha agricultural area, while 3% used 100 ha or more; - 23% were holdings of the type general field cropping, 12% specialist dairy farming, 10% were engaged in mixed cropping, 9% in combined field cropping and grazing livestock and 9% had specialised in sheep, goats and other grazing livestock; - 36% were producing mainly for their own consumption. Among the 115 thousand sole holders - 13% were women; - 52% were aged 55 or more, and only 7% were younger than 35 years; - 24% had another gainful activity as their major occupation.

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Distribution of utilised agricultural area according to th e size of the holdings

2003 2005

0 < 10 10 - < 20 20- < 30 30 - < 50 50 - < 100 100=< size in ha * Due to differences in the threshold across Member States, the total number of farms is not comparable between countries. This is why the present analysis, including Tables 1-4 and the graphs focus on holdings of at least one ESU. See methodological notes for more information on the concept of the ESU.