- Argentine large scale cereal producers dispose of areal averaging 2000 ha.
- In the years 2012-2017 in Bolivia there were averaging about 220 thousands. ha of forests per year.
- In Brazil farms of over > 1000 ha that are only 1 perc. farms, however they occupy half of all agricultural land in the country.
- In Uruguay in over 15 years the average area of farm has increased by 27 percent.
- The average size of farm in Poland is about. 11 ha. In the whole EU only 18 proportion of farms have more (or equal) than the EU average 17 ha.
Argentine latifundia
Among countries Mercosur this Argentine holds first place in rankings of largest average area of farmland. Depending on the source you can find different values of more than 500 hectares. According FAOSTAT on the basis of the last census of agriculture of 2018 year.The average area of farms in Argentina is 620 ha.
65 proc. all land in Argentina is occupied by huge latifs of farm over 2500 ha. 849 farms large over 20 thousand ha. At the same time there is no shortage of small, family farms. Farms of small are (from <5 ha to 25 ha) are one third of all Argentine farms, decreasing the average farm area in the country to level “just” 620 ha.
In Argentina the largest areal occupied by crops soybeans, followed by cereals (mainly corn and wheat; third place beef barley). According to publication OECD “Agricultural Policies in Argentina” of
2019 year, farms specializing in grain production count on average 2000 ha. Smaller areals can be boasted by Argentine producers of
vegetables and fruits.
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“Big agro” pushes in Bolivia
Bolivia for many years has been in the top ponur rankings of the poorest countries on the continentSouth American. The availability of numerical data on the subject of Bolivian agriculture is small. As based on the last census of 2013 year. reports FAOSTAT, the average agricultural farm in Bolivia lots 40 ha.
This average is the result of great diversity at regional level. According to the World Bank publication of 2019 . “Tapping the Potential of Bolivia’s Agriculture and Food Systems to Support Inclusive and Sustainable Growth” in Bolivia in mountain and highland 60 proc. farms counting less than 1 ha of land, with farms in areas more favorable for agricultural production that already only 27 proc. of all farms; there will increase the share of farms above 100 ha.
An interesting perspective on the direction of development of agriculture in this country was presented by Bolivian economist Huascar Salazar Lohman in the weekly “Ojala”.
– 98 percent of food in households in Bolivia comes from small, family farms, called “backward” and “unproductive.” (…) From the other side Bolivian agribusiness produces a huge quantity of goods, based on pillage of extensive territories and the violent economic model. These products are traded in international markets and benefit large capital, whose only purpose is profit, and not the nutrition of people. (…) The Region Santa Cruz, which is mainly from agribusiness, accounts for 75 proc. production of food in all Bolivia, of which most transfers however to export – wrote in “Ojala” Lohman.
True, it seems that corporations from the “big agro” sector are strengthening their position in regions Bolivia with the best conditions for agricultural production. Of the nine departments (equivalent to our provinces) only
three: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz generate as 72 proc. of the total contribution of agriculture in Bolivia’s
GDP. The dynamic expansion of industrial agriculture is well pictured by the scale of deforestation: in the years 2012-2017
in Bolivia ubstituted on average about. 220 tys. ha of forest per year, a phenomenon that is continuing.
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Brazil: gigafarms and farmless
which initially may seem surprising, the average farm area in Brazil according to present by FAOSTAT the agricultural census of 2017 . this is 69 ha. However, one should be aware of the huge dispersion and unbalanced distribution of land in this country. Farms with less than 100 ha (yes, these are defined in Brazil as “small farms”) contain as as 91 percent. of all farms, but they only occupy 20 percent of the country. Large agricultural enterprises, which own are over 1000 ha, are only 1 percent. of all farms, however they occupy nearly half of land in Brazil.
As a interesting factor, we can add, that there are a large number of “farms without land.” In 1984 year in
this country the so-called Movement was established. Movement Farmers without land, which fought for the allocation of land to local farmers, deprived
of land and reduced only to the roles of workers forcibly due to concentration of land and the creation of
huge latfunds. There were loud actions of occupation of unused land by members of the Movement. Till today this organization exists and is opposed to the Movement, among other things. direction of agricultural production in Brazil to export and “hegemony agribusiness”.
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Paraguay and Uruguay: family farms in the shadow agribusiness
In Prague and Uruguay the size structure of farms shapes similar, as in other Mercosur countries. According to agricultural censuses of 2022 (in Paraguay) and 2011 (in Urguay), published by FAOSTAT, average surface areafarm farm in Paraguay is 104 ha, and in Uruguay 365 ha.
As reported in 2021 year. World Bank in publication “Climate Risk Profile: Paraguay”, in Paraguay 91 proc. agricultural producers are owners of small, family farms of 1-50 ha, those who engage in cultivation of farms, manioc, cane sugar, corn, tobacco and sesame. Small rural producers however only 6 proc. of agricultural land in Paraguay. The remaining 94 proc. land is occupied by great agricultural enterprises, which mainly produce soy and beef. Slightly over 600 farms in Paraguay utilize land of over 10 tys. ha.
In Uruguay 62 percent of the farms. of all farms are smaller farms family farms, occupying 15 percent of thetotalareaofagriculturallandinthe country.The remaining38percent.farmsarelargecommodityfarms,specializedinrearingcattleandproducingsoy.Thesedatanumbersarederivedinthepublishedin2015bytheBankWorldreport”Climate-SmartAgricultureinUruguay.”Alreadyatthat timeattentionwas paidtothetendencytoincreasetheaveragefarmarea(increaseby27proc.inover15years)withsimultaneousdecreaseinthenumberoffarms(decreaseby12perc.inover15years),whichatteststotheprogressiveconcentrationoflandinthehandoflargefarmsforcommodity.