Note sur l'évolution du pouvoir d'achat agricole, 1949-1955

[eng] SUMMARY The writer tries to study the evolution of the rural purchasing power since 1949-1950 and 1938 First he considers the farmers as producers and figures out their pur chasing power in relation with the evolution of agricnirnrni prices and production and on the other mci of the expenses farming expenses wages rents and farmers own private expenses He out the trend to stagnation of this purchasing power in relation with 1949 as well as iwith 1938 sli li.t trend to rise is to notice since 1951-1952 This stagnation is the consequence of the gap between expense of farmers and agricultural prices the latter tending to go down as production rises despite recent efforts to organise the marketing Purchasing pdwer of rents showed tendency to rise slowly until 1951- 1952 then to fall down with agricultural prices and has been continually below file 1938 level Wages purchasing power has been increasing but did not reach its pre-lwar level until 1953-1954 if familial grants re taken into account it exceeds this level since 1949 Finally the purchasing power of farmers taken as consumers is cak ulaied through slightly di erent method The trend is about the same stagnation or slight increase whilst the purchasing power of other groups is Increasing more rapidly