Olive Tree Farming in Jaen: Situation With the New Cap and Comparison With the Province Income Per Capita.

about disintegrated salaries. Comparison has been done taking information about dry land and
irrigated land⁶. Results are shown on tables 5 to 8.

Table 5. Analysis of main social-economic variables in Jaén olive tree dry land in 1994 comparing
the original survey with new data income per capita. (Euros. Reference year 2000=100)

Source: Income per capita of Jaén province from Nacional Estatistic Institute (INE).

¹Agrarian Work Unit: days of work per person dedicated to full-time during one year to the agrarian activity. It was
established in 1,826 hour∕year or 228 days∕year.

In the first column in table 5 we can observe average values got in each year sampling
and for each farm (this information is also shown in tables 2 and 3 for 1994 and 1999 crop
years).The following columns show values corresponding to the main socieconomic variables of
those farms giving an income equals or higher than once, twice, three times and four times
average per capita income in the province of Jaén during 1994 and 1999.

In all tables it is possible to observe a progressive reduction of the number of farms that
fulfill the criteria (which is logical in our opinion). However, when it is higher the income level
it is necessary to increase the average size of farm to be able to fulfill the criteria and at the
same time there is a better productivity per hectare in the farm. This generally comes with an
increase of labour work per hectare and above all in the total labour work employed in the farm
(AWU).

Respect to the economic variables, the subsidies∕Ha increase in the same way that per
capita income does (except for the dry land in 1994, Table 5, which was an extremely dry year
—

⁶ The marginal farms are not significant in 1994 and 1999 crop years. In 1994 shown an income lower than Jaen
province average per capita income, while in 1999 only four farms was significant.

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