{"id":393863,"date":"2026-01-07T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:30:09","slug":"small-plots-age-poor-training-limit-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393863\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plots, age poor training limit production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece ranks among the EU\u2019s most challenged agricultural sectors, with persistent structural problems undermining decades of modernization efforts, according to a European primary sector report released Wednesday with 2020 data.<\/p>\n<p>The country trails dramatically in farmer education, with fewer than 5% fully trained compared to over 70% in the Netherlands and France.\u00a0Only 2-4% of Greek farmers are under 35, well below the EU average of 6%.<\/p>\n<p>Greece holds 6% of EU farms by number but cultivates significantly less land than countries with fewer operations. Some 74% of Greek farms are small holdings under 5 hectares, collectively working just 23% of cultivated land.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, France and the Netherlands have only 20% of farmers in this category, utilizing merely 1% of agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights fragmented plots, aging farmers, and inadequate training as defining characteristics of Greek agriculture despite extensive modernization programs.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal faces similar challenges, with 73% small farmers cultivating just 9% of land.<\/p>\n<p>Greece, alongside Portugal, Italy, and Spain, maintains the EU\u2019s most diverse agriculture with significant acreage in field crops, pastures, and permanent tree crops including fruit, vines, and olives.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece ranks among the EU\u2019s most challenged agricultural sectors, with persistent structural problems undermining decades of modernization efforts,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3878,45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-393863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}