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EU real agricultural income per worker goes down in 2015

Xinhua, December 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

The European Union (EU)'s real agricultural income per worker has decreased by 4.3 percent in 2015 when compared with last year, according to first estimates issued on Tuesday by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.

As a result, between 2010 and 2015, the 28-member bloc's real agricultural income per worker is estimated to have decreased by 5.7 percent.

Eurostat said the income decrease is mainly due to a fall in the value of sugar beet, grain maize, and milk.

In 2015, the value of milk declined 14.9 percent and the value of pigs went down 8.9 percent in the EU. Concerning crop production, the value of sugar beet fell 26.0 percent and the value of grain maize fell 24.5 percent.

Meanwhile, EU agricultural input costs are estimated to have decreased by 2.4 percent.

Figures also show that when compared with the previous year, real agricultural income per worker in 2015 is estimated to have risen in 13 member states and fallen in 15. And the highest increases are expected in Croatia (+21.5 percent), and the largest decrease in Germany (-37.6 percent), followed by Poland, Luxembourg, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Romania. Endit