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______________________________________________________Introduction
people in 2009, which was only 2.9% of total Spanish population. The agricultural area
accounted for 85.2% (100.00% - 14.79% - table 1.2) of the total area of Aragon and, as
a result of an intense migration in the XX century, only 16.9% of its population live in
rural areas. While the national average age was 40.8 years old, in Aragón it was 42.9
(IEA, 2010).
The fallow area in 2010 was 464.141ha (9.73% of total area) and forests surface
had the highest proportion (42.28%) of the productive area in Aragon (Table 1.2).
Cereal area was the second most extensive and it occupied 855,184ha (17.93%). Other
fruits, such as apples, pears, fig trees, peaches, nectarines, etc., had 139,582ha (2.93%).
Irrigated area occupied 380,736ha.
Table 1.2 Land distributions in Aragon in 2010
Land distribution
Cereals
Legumes
Tubers
Industrials crops
Forage
Vegetable and flowers
Fallow
Other fruits
Grapes
Olive
Nurseries
Familiar orchard
Grassland
Forest
Other areas
Total (ha)
Total (%)
Production system (ha)
Dry
Irrigation Greenhouse
666,367.2
188,817.5
0.0
46,626.1
1,563.3
0.0
19.2
482.0
0.0
8,838.6
3,390.1
0.0
54,045.0
98,413.2
0.0
70.8
6,209.5
94.1
455,601.9
8,539.7
0.0
97,022.1
42,560.4
0.0
30,461.6
10,448.8
0.0
48,623.3
11,247.3
0.0
214.8
587.0
128.0
404.2
5,142.3
6.1
262,058.1
122.7
0.0
2,013,399.0
3,212.7
0.0
705,316.5
0.0
0.0
4,389,068.5
380,736.5
228.2
92.013
7.982
0.005
Total
(ha)
(%)
855,184.7 17.93%
48,189.4
1.01%
501.2
0.01%
12,228.7
0.26%
152,458.3
3.20%
6,374.5
0.13%
464,141.6
9.73%
139,582.5
2.93%
40,910.4
0.86%
59,870.6
1.26%
929.8
0.02%
5,552.5
0.12%
262,180.8
5.50%
2,016,611.7 42.28%
705,316.5 14.79%
4,770,033.2 100.00%
100.000
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Source: MMAMRM (2010c)
Almonds occupied 57.9% of the total area of the other fruits. Peaches and
nectarines were the second and they had 12.2% (16,966ha) of other fruits area. Great
part of cherries (5,762ha) was produced on dry lands and the rest (4,947ha) was
produced on irrigation systems. Peaches and nectarines were produced mostly with
irrigation systems (96.7%). The irrigation system influences the fruit quality because
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