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The Netherlands and Romania are first in EU when it comes to increase in farmers' income in 2013
The Romanian farmers' real income has grown this year by 10.4 percent from 2012. This is the second big advance of all the European Union member states, whereas, in the entire community bloc, the real incomes went down by 1.3 percent in 2013 after a 0.3 percent increase in 2012, say the preliminary data presented by Eurostat on Friday.
It was only in the Netherlands that the growth was higher than in Romania. The real income of farmers grew by 11.4 percent. According to Eurostat, the real income for the farmers has increased this year in 15 member states and has diminished in 13. The most important decreases were registered in Estonia (17.2 percent), France (16.4 percent), Croatia (16.2 percent) and Germany (10 percent).
In the European Union, the decrease in the farmers' income in 2013 is mainly due to the rise in costs (0.8 percent in real terms) whereas the value of the agricultural production at producer's prices only grew by 0.1 percent in real terms. The increase in costs was mainly due to the increase in the value of fodder, maintenance and materials as well as of the value of seeds. In its turn the value of the agricultural production mainly grew as a consequence of the increase in the value of the animal production (1.5 percent), but which was counteracted by the drop in the value of the vegetal production (1.1 percent).