Un índice de mecanización de la agricultura alicantina: el consumo de gasóleo subvencionado en 1980-85

The study and analysis of the gasoil subventioned in the Alicante country results an aproximate index of the intensity and caracteristics that agrarian mechanisation has got in the Alicante province. Subvention is not a synonim of real consumption, but its temporal evolution and the distribution of the land approach us to it and to all the factors that condition it wich are identical factors to those wich determine the degree and differentiation of place of the agrarian industrialisation: system and type of cultivation, sise of the explotaitions, dispersed in small parts of land, agricultural manager’s dedicacion... As a result we can affirm that the use of fuel in agriculture has an extraordinary trascendency specially in the last years when there is a great preocupacion about the consequences of the energetic crisis and the progressive damage of the enviroment.