Water management issues in Spain and Portugal at beginning of 2020s

Abstract

In the EU-28 productivity could have decreased somehow, because price indices of means of agricultural production, as input increased by 9,7% more than increase of price indices of agricultural products, as output in field of cereals including seeds, which increased only by 6,8% for period of 2010-2017. But agricultural income factor income per annual working unit has considerably increased by 27,2% for period of 2010-2020, mostly approximately closed to same period. This means that factor income increased more than this could be explained by low level of increase according to increasing rate of price indices of output in the EU-28. The agricultural income, factor income per AWU is valid for all of agricultural production also beyond cereal and seed production. Motivation/Background: Productivity of agricultural industry is basic issue to ensure sustainability of agriculture, which is accompanying with irrigation innovation. Analyse the irrigation prosperity for the increasing output. Method: Compare price input and price out is based on statistical analysis. Conclusions: This increase of the profitability has only partly been resulted by 10% decrease of number of the agricultural total labour force, as input for this time. Because decreasing trend of the agricultural total labour force input was considerable, but subsidies for agricultural production including the consumption of fixed capital was also significant.