| The Province of Lagadas
lies upon the northeast part of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki.
It has completely different ground, economical, social
and demographic attributes compared with the rest of the
prefecture. It is primarily a rural region with a different
growth rate since it includes mountainous and thus disadvantageous
morphology. The mountain chains of Vertiskos, Kerdillia
and Zagliverion shape the sink of Migdonia where the lakes
of Coroneia and Volvi lie while the county ends to the
marine region of Strimonikos gulf. The total area is 2059
km2 (56% of the whole Prefecture) and it includes
13 municipalities, 83 villages with a population
of 70,000 permanent residents. |
As far as it concerns
the contribution of the Province of Lagadas to the prefecture's
occupational activities that covers:
In agriculture:
the 42% of the plow cultivation, the 26% of the gardening,
the 42% of the plant trees cultivation and the 11% of
the vinicuture.
In cattle-breeding:
the 35% of beef-cattle, the 58% of sheep-cattle, the
75% of goat-cattle, the 37% of piggeries, together with
the 18% of the aviculture, the 59% of the apiculture
and the 100% of the tobacco cultivation.
Furthermore, there is a remarkable development in the
cloth-dye industry.
It has the higher
rate of unemployment in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki,
19,8%, and the higher percentage of unskilled new unemployed,
60%. It presents low but constant ageing of population
due to internal immigration of young persons, for search
of employment in the near urban group of Thessaloniki.
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