Abstract
Agriculture and services : divorce or symbiosis ? - Four million fewer people active in agriculture since 1950 ; never in history had France known so fast a fall. Simultaneously the number of people active in the tertiary agricultural sector rose strongly especially since the sixties. That contrasted evolution, as well as current economic difficulties (dairy quota...) prompt some farmers to criticize the services depending on them. Does that mean that to-morrow's agriculture will no longer need services ? That would be a paradoxical evolution at a time when all industrialized societies experience a substantial increase in the share of services. Nevertheless the need for greater fiscal rigor and the emergence of informatics will entail a question of the functions of some bodies, especially in the non commercial field. Questionning does not however mean abolition of the function. N.B. : The above analysis is the autor's sole responsability. It is written by an economist concerned with problems of efficiency in production. This cannot be the sole determinant of decisions. Christian De Perthuis offered many penetrating remarks on a previous draft which were taken in to account. Be he thanked for them.
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