08/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – The number of women in farming has slowly increased in recent years, the European Commission said on Monday 8 March. The most recent data (Eurostat, year 2016) indicate that on average 29% of farms in the EU are managed by women. But this data masks considerable differences between countries. In Lithuania and Latvia, almost half of the farms are run by women. On the other hand, in Malta, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the proportion of women farm...