EU27 real agricultural income per worker has increased by 1.0% in 2012, due to a 0.5% rise in real agricultural income, together with a 0.5% cut in agricultural labor input, according to Eurostat.
The highest increases were registered in Belgium (+30%), the Netherlands (+14.9%) and Lithuania (+13.6%), and the largest decreases were registered in Romania (-16.4%), Hungary (-15.7%), Slovenia (-15.1%) and Austria (-10.2%).
Between 2005 and 2012, EU27 real agricultural income per worker is estimated to have increased by 29.7%, close to Romania’s 29.8% increase, while agricultural labor input fell by 20.0%.
Estonia saw the highest increase in real agricultural income per worker over the past seven years, of around 110%, followed by Slovakia (+89.4%), Poland (+82.4%), Lithuania (+75.4%), the Czech Republic (+65%), Hungary (+52.7%) and Bulgaria (+47.3%).