EVOLUTION OF THE PRICES OF LAND IN EUROPE AND NORTH-AMERICA. REPERCUSSION ON THE HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTION.

In the last years, in the principal agricultural countries of the world, a substantial increase of the price of land has been observed, that some authors have tried to explain by what have been called new components of the market of land, among them the inflation effect, the non-agrarian use of land and the entrance of non-professionals of the agriculture or farmers at partial time in the market, are mentioned.

In the present work a comparative analysis of the evolution of these prices in United States, Canada, the countries of the European Economic Community and the areas of Spain of more intensive cultivation, as the Valencian Community, is made, differentiating the evolution of the prices of land destinated to intensive horticultural cultures (orchad) intensive cultures of fruits (orange-grove) against a cereal culture (rice) and dry land.
The monetary capital gain and real capital gain are differentiated as well.

On the other hand, the surface effect on the concurrence in the market of land is analysed, relating this effect with the professionalism of the small fruit-horticulturist and his finantial availabilities, contrasting this concurrence with anterior conducts of the market of land, that is the case of the disentail.

Finally, the effect that the conduct of the land as shelter property exerts on the studies of revenues and costs in the intensive horticultural production on the one hand and fruit horticultural on the other hand, is analised, where the effect of the age of the plantation has to be considered.

VIII Symposium on Horticultural Economics

B. Segura García del Río, V. Caballer Mellado, J.F. Juliá Igual

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1984.155.62