Real agricultural income per worker in Croatia increased this year by 21.5% compared to last year. In the 2010-2015 period real agricultural income per worker in Croatia dropped 17.3%, the Eurostat estimated.
This year Croatia is in a group of 13 EU countries that reported an increase in real agricultural income per worker. Latvia reported an increase of 14.3%, Greece reported an increase of 12.1%, while France and Italy reported growth rates of 8.8% and 8.7% respectively.
Annual real agricultural income per worker decreased the most in Germany, by 37.6%. Germany is followed by Poland, with a 23.8% drop, Luxembourg, which reported a 20% decrease, and Denmark, which reported a 19.7% decline in real agricultural income per worker.
In the 2010-2015 period real agricultural income per worker decreased the most in Finland, where it was more than halved, while it increased the most in Italy, by 26.1%, and the Czech Republic, by 21.6%.
In the EU28, real agricultural income per worker dropped 4.3%, real agricultural income dropped by 6% and input costs in agriculture dropped 1.8%. In 2013 real agricultural income per worker in the EU dropped 1.7%.
In the past five years real agricultural income per worker in the EU declined 5.7%, the Eurostat said.
According to Eurostat estimates, the value of agricultural output in 2015 dropped 2.5% in nominal terms from the previous year, primarily due to a 5.9% drop in the value of animal production. Crop production dropped as well, by 0.3% and intermediate consumption dropped 2.4%.