Wine Statistics
The Winegrowers
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The men and theirs businesses.
(Sources RGA 2001)
The Rhone Valley vineyards, the region's leading employer…
50,000 direct or indirect jobs make the wine-growing industry the Rhone Valley's leading employer.
Wine-growing requires 10 times as much labour force on average as the other French agricultural activities for the same land surface.
18 600 direct jobs, divided as follows :
| 16 350 in the wine farms 1 150 in the cooperative cellars1 100 in the trading companies |
31 400 indirect jobs
41% of the agricultural jobs in the Rhone Valley are generated by AOC wine production..
The businesses in the Rhone Valley … "From the small perfectionist vineyard to the large, efficient cellar…"
More than 6000 wine-growing properties produce AOC wines in the Rhone Valley. :
| 1 574 private cellars 96 co-operative cellars52 trading companies6 Unions of Producers |
