Dans un groupe d'exploitations familiales : les facteurs de croissance ou de survie

In a group of family farms : the factors of survival and growth - The examples taken in a group of «average » and « small » (43 % have vineyards of less than 5 hectares and 71 % less than 7 hectares) family Wine-growing farms, show that those farms which seem likely to survive or to increase their size are not necessarily those where intensive farming is practised nor those which are best managed. Too many other factors are concerned : age, family responsibilities, possibilities of inheriting, supplementary income, capital free for investment, the proportion of land actually owned by the farmer. Usually several favourable factors must be united to allow a considerable increase in size of the farm. In spite of the need for greater surface felt and expressed by the farmers, it must be admitted that factors hindering the growth in size - especially the lack of capital to invest - are as numerous as the factors of growth.