Younger, more female, better trained and profitable sales in short circuits… These are the main features of the profile of farmers compared to the current decade, compared to the previous one, according to the latest Census 2020 of the Ministry of Agriculture, released on Friday. .
The first part of the results of this large-scale study with French farmers, which is conducted every ten years, was published in late 2021. It showed a 20% drop in the number of farms in France, which now stands at 390,000. . It remained to find out who were the leaders of the operations installed after 2010. “Women are better represented, Corin Prost, head of the Department of Statistics and Forecasts of the Ministry, emphasizes. They represent almost a third of farm managers deployed since 2010, a 14% increase over the previous decade. But they remain a very large minority in a professional environment that is still very masculine, as they lead only…
Source: Le Figaro
