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EEC agriculture is probably the most intensive in the world. The total cultivated area (arable and permanent crops) is estimated to be 79 million ha (table 1). With an EEC population of 319 million inhabitants, this figure corresponds to an average of 4 inhabitants per cultivated hectare. This value is double the corresponding average for the USA, three times higher than for the URSS, and five times higher than for Argentina. Moreover, the EEC farming is essentially based on small-medium size units (fig.1), only 12–17 ha each, 10 times smaller than in the USA (in 1980, the average EEC farm size was 15.7 ha).
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Pellizzi, G., Cavalchini, A.G., Lazzari, M. (1988). General Considerations. In: Pellizzi, G., Cavalchini, A.G., Lazzari, M. (eds) Energy Savings in Agricultural Machinery and Mechanization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1365-3_2
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