06/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to the estimates published on Wednesday by Eurostat, real farm income per asset fell 3.0% in the EU in 2002. In the euro zone, the fall in farm income per asset was 2.9%. The EU's statistical office puts this fall down to the fall in real farm income (-5.9%) on one hand, and to the continued reduction in the volume of farm labour (-2.9%), on the other. Farm income is below the 2001 levels in ten countries. The largest declines were noted in Denmark (-26.3%), Germany (-18.0%), Ireland (-11.4%), Belgium (-7.7%), and in the Netherlands (-7.5%). Farm income rose in 2001 only in Finland (+7.3%), Greece (+5.7%), the United Kingdom (+3.9%), Spain (+1.2%) and Luxembourg (+1.0%).