17/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to a Eurostat study for 2000, 52% of individual farmers in the EU were aged 55 or over, and 29% were 65 or over. Younger farmers of less than 35 made up only 8% of the total. The highest ratios of farmers aged 55 or over were to be found in Portugal (65%), Italy (62%), Greece (56%), and Spain (53%), the lowest in Finland (25%) followed by Germany (28%) and Austria (29%). These countries also had the highest proportion of farmers aged less than 35 (16%...