There were more than 1.5 million in 1970, barely 500,000 in 2020... The last fifty years have therefore seen the number of farmers drop by around two thirds.
A continuous erasure, already prophesied by the sociologist Henri Mendras in a book published in 1967 and entitled
The End of Peasants
, where he described the profound transformation of French agriculture.
If the profession has declined considerably within French society, the areas exploited remain fairly stable.
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