28/06/2018 (Agence Europe) – A little over 171 million hectares of land in the European Union were used for agricultural production in 2016, i.e. about 40% of EU total land area, according to Eurostat data published on Thursday 28 June. Such surface areas cover the needs of some 10.3 million farms and farmers. Although numerous, most EU farms are small with two-thirds using under 5 hectares (ha). The 3% of farms of 100 ha or more in size worked over half of the EU’s utilised...