Ministère de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation
Over one quarter of the fresh vegetable producers sell their vegetables mainly through a short channel : direct sale to consumers and distributors or supply to a wholesale market.
With over 680,000 hectares, high mountain pastures cover one sixth of the Alps mountain range, and nearly half its agricultural acreage.
The development of farms under corporate form is continuing at a sustained rate.
Technological and vocational training progresses in all activity sectors.
In 1996, while the BSE crisis triggered a fast drop in beef household consumptions, the industrial activity of carving and processing, far from coming to a stop, increased its sales of beef and veal by 4 % in volume.
More than 28,000 French farmers produce fruits.
Steps toward quality are developing in French fruit production.
Soft wheat, potatoes and pork illustrate three realities of French agriculture : a crop production, wheat, heavily subsidised by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), another subject to the law of supply and demand, and an animal production also outside of the CAP.
Workforce now represents a major item in the production cost of hog.
In Cantal, a breeding area, cattle ensures the quasi-total production of agricultural holdings.
Ministère de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation