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The EU allocates 217,5 million hectares of its surface to agricultural work.
The European Commission presented last week its annual report “The EU in the World 2015” on the weight of the European Union in the world market. Devote a chapter to agriculture, fishing and forest area, sectors in which the Europe of the 28 appears as one of the first powers of the planet.
The 28 community countries allocate 217,5 million hectares - the 44 %- of its surface to agricultural work, according to data from Faostat collected in the report "The EU in the world" that has been released by the European Statistical Agency, Eurostat.
Saudi Arabia and South Africa are the states that classify a higher percentage of their area as agricultural (above the 75 %), followed by India, Mexico and China (higher than 50 %).
These data contrast with less than a tenth that Canada declares and that therefore appears at the bottom of the developed countries of the G-20 in relation to its agricultural surface with respect to the total.
In absolute terms, the largest agricultural areas corresponded in 2012 a China (more than 500 million hectares), Australia and the United States (both with more than 400 million hectares).
[quote]The Agriculture, hunt, fishing and forestry employs less than a tenth of the workforce in most G-20 members in 2014.[/quote]
In the Europe of 28, is located in the 3,8 % (the 4,4 % of the men and the 3,1 % of active women), while in the case of Turkey it increases to 30 % and in India and China 50 %, according to data from the FAO.
Mexico is the country in which there is an overwhelming majority of male workforce -a 15,6 % difference compared to women, while in china, India, Turkey and Indonesia the number of women agricultural workers is higher than the number of workers in the sector.