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C. R. Garcia

Abstract

Agricultural typologies to describe the evolution of agricultural systems in Andalusia C. R. Garcia Department of Business Administration, ETEA, University of Co'rdoba, Spain Abstract Andalusia is a very important agrarian region in the south of Europe. The cultivated area is above 4.1 million ha. (46.8% of the total surface of the region) where more than 400,000 farms develop their business (Garcia [5]). The existence of many small agricultural enterprises (more than 75% have less than 5 ha. of total cultivated area) makes it very difficult to analyse the Andalusian farm structure and the impact of new regulations (Garcia [6]). Approximately, it is easy to know the main productive profiles of Andalusian farms: more than 30% of them concentrate on olive trees, over 10% are mainly interested in cereals, oil seeds and legumes, and so on. But it is very difficult to understand how these crops are combined in an agrarian enterprise: there are "many agricultures" in Andalusia (Garcia [5]). In orde

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