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OLIVE TREE FARMING IN JAEN: SITUATION WITH THE NEW CAP
AND COMPARISON WITH THE PROVINCE INCOME PER CAPITA.
Pedro Pablo Pérez Hernandez
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Ma. Carmen Lopez Martin
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Araceli de los Rios Berjillos
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Facultad de Cc. Ec. y Empresariales-ETEA
Universidad de Cordoba
c/ Escritor Castilla Aguayo, 4
14004 - Cordoba - SPAIN
Key words: olive tree farming, 2003 CAP Reform, Jaén province, subsidies, average per capita
income.
Abstract
Jaén (province belonging to European Union) represents more than 15% of the Spanish
production of olive oil, around 7% of European Union olive oil and more than 5% of the world
production. Olive oil represents more than 90% of the income in Jaen agricultural sector and
agricultural sector contributed with 15% of GDP province in 2003.
The aims of this paper is to show the evolution of the main socioeconomic variables of these
farms during the nineties in one province belonging to the most significant region in the world
and compare during the nineties the income per capita in this province with the income in the
olive oil.
The variables analysed in each plantation are: productivity or cultivation yield on Hectare;
labour work; cultivation expenses without including labour work; Agriculture Common Policy
subventions; standard gross margin (according to directions of the European Union Agriculture
General Board) and net margin. On the other hand, the main macroeconomics variables used
are: Gross Internal Product, Population, Labour work and Land Productivity.
The information farms reflected in this paper is based upon four researchs and previous research
carried out by the same authors. The secondary data has been got from Institutions and Public
Statistics from Andalusian Regional Government.
The original researchs were funded by the Department of Agriculture of the Andalusian
Regional Government -Consejeria de Agricultura y Pesca de la Junta de Andalucia- and La
General (one of the savings bank in Spain). It has consisted in four surveys during the years
1991, 1994, 1999 and 2000. The first step in the methodology has been to design the sample and
questionaires, after that, field camp was implemented and data processing, creating for that
purpose an information system pattern (simulator-programme). Results files, ordered according
to user’s likes, can be incorporated to other systems or be analysed with conventional statistics
software (SPSS for instance). Main results are shown in charts and tables.
After getting results we project the predictable Common Organisation of the Market (CMO)
reform on olive tree farming. The recent reform of olive oil will reduce the subventions and the
income of the farmer. And we also show the impact of that reduction on farm margins and the
consecuences in the income per capita province.