Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
92% of the farms in Chile are family farms (277,166 units) with an average area of 46 ha.
93.1% of the farms in Paraguay are family farms (269,559 units) with an average area of 10.45 ha.
46.9% of the farms in Uruguay are family farms, with a total of 21,038 units.
83.9% of the farms in the Southern Cone are family farms, with 5,154,533 units and an average area of 47.02 ha.
10% of Peru's small farmers, some 180,000, received technical assistance for areas of up to 5 hectares.
87% of family sugarcane farmers have a yield of less than 60 tons/ha, while large technicized producers exceed 100 tons/ha.
94% of small cassava producers yield less than 13 tons/ha, while large producers yield close to 30 tons/ha.
45% of Family Farming in Guatemala and El Salvador corresponds to salaried workers with agriculture as a secondary activity.
There are 44,781 farms in Uruguay, of which 25,285 are family units (MGAP, 2011).
294 inhabitants/km2 represents the high population density of El Salvador, being a small country in terms of territorial extension (Martín Manzano, 2012).
