Portugal experienced the second-largest drop in the agricultural labour productivity index, of 10.7%, in 2025, with the indicator increasing by 9.2% in the EU compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n
This increase in productivity in the European Union (EU), according to the EU statistical service, was driven by an estimated 8.1% growth in real factor income generated by farms and a 1.0% reduction in the volume of agricultural labour.<\/p>\n
Agricultural labour productivity increased in 19 EU countries in 2025.<\/p>\n
The sharpest increases were recorded in Luxembourg (40.1%), Poland (33.4%) and Estonia (30.9%).<\/p>\n
In contrast, reductions are estimated in eight Member States, with the most significant falls observed in Croatia (-14.9%), Portugal (-10.7%) and Greece (-8.8%).<\/p>\n
The gross value added of the EU’s agricultural industry increased by 10.3% in 2025 compared to the previous year. During the same period, the value of agricultural production grew by 5.3%, while intermediate consumption increased by 1.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal experienced the second-largest drop in the agricultural labour productivity index, of 10.7%, in 2025, with the indicator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-201670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}