Opinion: The high cost of low prices
May 31 , 2021
By Cristóbal Aguado Laza, President of AVA-ASAJA
If you spend four and earn five, your company is viable, but if after a while you start spending six and keep earning five, the numbers no longer come out in your favor.
This is what is happening in thousands of agricultural holdings, the reason why the average age of farmers and ranchers is getting older and older. The reason why there is no generational change and the brown stain of uncultivated fields becomes ever larger.
The most established crop in Valencian agriculture, citrus fruits, is a paradigmatic example. A few days ago we learned about a new study, entitled The Valencian citrus industry, the evolution of its production costs and the expenses that determine them published by María Ángeles Fernández-Zamudio of the Valencian Institute of Agrarian Research (IVIA).
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