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    France is the largest country in Western Europe and the first European agricultural producer. It has over 824,000 people working on farms, growing crops like cereals, oilseeds, and protein crops that make up over 45% of agricultural land. France is also a top producer of milk, cattle, poultry, and pigs in Europe. Sustainable practices like crop rotation and agroforestry are common. Spain ranks second in the EU for arable land and has a diverse agricultural sector. Around 38% of its land is used for crops and 14% for grazing, while 32% is forested. Major Spanish agricultural practices include olive cultivation, where olives are manually picked and pressed for oil, and

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    France is the largest country in Western Europe and the first European agricultural producer. It has over 824,000 people working on farms, growing crops like cereals, oilseeds, and protein crops that make up over 45% of agricultural land. France is also a top producer of milk, cattle, poultry, and pigs in Europe. Sustainable practices like crop rotation and agroforestry are common. Spain ranks second in the EU for arable land and has a diverse agricultural sector. Around 38% of its land is used for crops and 14% for grazing, while 32% is forested. Major Spanish agricultural practices include olive cultivation, where olives are manually picked and pressed for oil, and

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    France is the largest country in Western Europe and the first European agricultural producer. It has over 824,000 people working on farms, growing crops like cereals, oilseeds, and protein crops that make up over 45% of agricultural land. France is also a top producer of milk, cattle, poultry, and pigs in Europe. Sustainable practices like crop rotation and agroforestry are common. Spain ranks second in the EU for arable land and has a diverse agricultural sector. Around 38% of its land is used for crops and 14% for grazing, while 32% is forested. Major Spanish agricultural practices include olive cultivation, where olives are manually picked and pressed for oil, and

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    France Agriculture

    European Continent
    • The largest country in western
    europe
    • Capital - Paris
    • Area -643,801 sq km
    • Population - 67 million
    • Language - French
    • Life Expectancy - 79 years for men
    85 years for
    women
    • GDP - 3,128 trillion dollars at the
    end 2022
    France Agricultural Situation

    France is the first European agricultural producer


    • 824, 000 people lives and works on farms in france and one
    quarter of the farm heads or joint heads are women
    • The major field crops ( cereals, oilseed, protein crop,
    beet)represent a little over 45% of agricultural are
    • The fruit and vegetables sectors provide 450,000 direct jobs
    and counts about 75,000 companies
    • Woodland covers 17 million hectares or nearly 31% of the
    metropolitan territory
    • France holds the EU’s biggest cattle herd
    • 19 million head of cattle including 36 million dairy cows
    • The main types of animal production
    a. 36% of milk
    b. 22% of cattle
    c. 14% of poultry
    d. 14% of pigs
    e. 4% of eggs
    France Agricultural Practices

    • Crop rotation -involves alternating crops on the same land


    • Agroforestry - involves integrating trees into agricultutral
    landscapes
    • Intercropping - involves planting two or more crops
    together in the same field
    France has a number of certification scheme and label that
    promote sustainable agriculture and food production
    • for example the “ Agricultural Biologique”
    Spain Agriculture
    European Continent
    • Capital - Madrid
    • Area - 505, 990 sq km
    • Population 47 million
    • Language - Spanish
    • GDP -1 427 billion USD
    ( 2021)
    Spain Agriculture Situation
    • Spain rank second in the European Union in terms of
    Arable land area, and its agricultural production is
    extensive and diverse
    • Spain area is 38 % crop land, 14% grazing land and 32%
    forest
    Agricultural Practices
    • some of most significant agricultural practices of spain in
    olive cultivation
    • The traditional method of harvesting olive is manually
    picking and then pressing them to extract oil
    • The fruits are harvested using mechanical method
    • Many of the crops are grown using irrigation system
    • Spain produces more olive oil than Italy, export more wine
    than France and its organic fruit and vegatables are fast
    gaining ground in the northern Europe
    • Europe largest producer of lemons oranges and
    strawberries
    • Spain produces large crops of
    a. wheat
    b. barley
    c. olive
    d. cork

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