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Greek agriculture is based on small, family-owned dispersed units. Currently, 47,9% of agricultural land is arable land, 27,4% is composed of tree plantations, 2,1% is composed of vines and 22,4% is composed of other cultivations (mostly used as pasture land). [1] Greek agriculture employs 615,000 farmers, 12,4% of the total labor force. [2]
The ministry was established in 2004 upon the inauguration of the First Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis, replacing the older Ministry of Agriculture. [1]It was demoted to the level of a sub-ministry within the Ministry of Productive Reconstruction, the Environment and Energy in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, before being restored as a full ministry in his second cabinet a few months later.
Agriculture contributes 3.8% of the country's GDP [1] and employs 12.4% of the country's labor force. [1] Greece is a major beneficiary of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. As a result of the country's entry to the European Community, much of its agricultural infrastructure has been upgraded and agricultural output increased.
1960 issue of the Agricultural Messenger, the institute's periodical aiming to publicise agrochemical research among Greek farmers In the early 1980s there was intense interest in the institute on assessing the environmental damage caused by the fertiliser plant and suggesting measures for the area's remediation .
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) is an educational and research institute focusing on Mediterranean agriculture. It is located in Chania (Crete, Greece) and belongs to the four agronomic institutes of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies . [1] [2] The institute contains five departments:
Pages in category "Agriculture in Greece" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Greece differed greatly from any other country in the EC at the time of its admission as agriculture, although in decline, was a much larger sector of the economy than in any other EC member. In 1981 Greek agriculture made up 17% of GDP and 30% of employment, in comparison to 5% of GDP and less than 10% of employment in EU countries excluding ...
In 1961 it became ‘Institute of Animal Breeding and Nutrition’ and in 1977 it took its present name. ARI has been part of the National Agricultural Research Foundation (N.AG.RE.F.) since 1990 and it is located on 3.5 square kilometres of farmland in Paralimni-Giannitsa, Northern Greece.