Spatial income distribution of horticultural farms in Andalusia

The agrarian income, estimated as direct gross margin of the farms, is not distributed proportionally in the territory. Horticulture is the most important subsector in the Andalusian agrarian economy. This paper aims to be focused on the differences observed in the spatial income distributions of different horticultural productive strategies (based on total cultivation costs and employment level of the farms). The financial structure of surveyed farms was geographically located considering a municipal precision. The spatial analysis of these data (density analysis) allowed us to determine the geographic distribution of gross margin of every productive strategy. Resulting maps show us that both the gross margin and employment level have very different spatial distributions. This methodology can be very useful to know where the financial and social sustainable farm types are located for designing for example agrarian policies.