ISHS Acta Horticulturae 155: VIII Symposium on Horticultural Economics
HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURE OF MURCIA AND THE SPANISH ADHESION TO E.E.C. |
| Authors: | M. Zapata, J. Cortina |
| Abstract:
The province of Murcia is situated in the South-East of Spain and it is affected almost in its totality by an arid climate. Murcia was in 1981 the third Spanish province with regard to agricultural final production. This magnitude was distributed percentualy as follows: agricultural subsector 53,3%, cattle subsector 36,1%, forestal subsector 0,5% and other contributions 4,1%. The principal groups of products in the agricultural final production were in percentage the following: livestock and cattle 32,8%, fruits 23,9%, vegetables 23,1%, industrial plants 4,3% and wine and byproducts 3,1%. The first fifteen horticultural productions are the following: tomato, lemon, apricot, wine grape, melon, peach, almond, table grape, red pepper, barley, orange, early potato, green bean, green pepper and lettuce. As for agricultural prices, the EEC market is attractive to the Murcian enterprises, due to a major level of prices and for this reason, very few agricultural products will be damaged. This stereotiped, simplist and popular version of the prices does not take into account a more complex realyty with a large number of conflicting points: First, the Murcian agricultural structure is little developed compared to the Communitary, with the existence of many little farms and an active agricultural population of 22,6%, while the Communitary is 8,5%. On the other hand the added gross value of the agricultural sector represents in Murcia 10,5% as opposed to 4,4% in the Communitary. Second, the Murcian trade structure with multitude of little firms competing among themselves in the foreing market, is worse than in the Community where the firms maintain. | |
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