The Spanish agricultural income fell by 16% and production costs soar 46%.

The largest increase costs are fertilizers, energy and lubricants and feed livestock feed.

A report Economic and Social Council (THESE) It concludes that the Spanish agricultural income in current terms has fallen 16% between 2003 and 2015 due, mainly, the defendant rise experienced by the different production costs, a rise that shot up 46% during the same period.

This sharp drop in profitability breaks a historical trend, as, according to the proper study of CES, from 1990 up to 2003 agricultural income had been rising year after year.

The three items that represent two-thirds of the total inputs required to carry out agricultural production have been, In addition, the greatest growth in the last thirteen years (2003-2015): feed for cattle feed rose 60,4% in value; fertilizers, a 62,2%, while the chapter on energy and increased lubricating 69,3%.

Despite declines in oil prices, a factor that should have an important influence on the evolution of input prices in the agrarian branch during 2015 intermediate consumption again reached the record high marked in 2013. In this way, always according to the CES, for one euro of production have had to spend 50 cents in productive inputs, when in 2003 only they needed 35 cents.

Agricultural organizations consider that the official data of CES confirm loud and clear manner the dramatic reality being experienced by farmers in recent years. "The figures testify to what we have been denouncing for some time, this is, that our profit margins are becoming narrower because, on the one hand, the great emporiums of inputs require us to spend more on production costs and, on the other hand, the chains of large food distribution exerting downward pressure on home prices, and all this often do not meet the objective conditions of the market or the relationship between supply and demand, but abusing the dominant position they have on the weakest and most vulnerable link: the producer".