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The Agroforestry Complex in the Portuguese Economy – 2020 91 component (forestry and forestry industries), is important to the national economy as an indige- nous resource and producer of tradeable goods accounting for 5.7% of national value added (around EUR 10b at current prices), 11.8% of employment (approx. 581,000 people), 15.6% of imports and 14.6% of exports (the highest figure since 2000) of goods and services. In 2010–2020, the GVA of the agroforestry complex, in volume, grew by an annual average of 0.2% due to growth in the agrifood component (0.5% per year), although the forestry component declined (-0.5% per year). It should be noted that agroforestry GVA growth in value (0.9% per year), with succes- sive growth from 2012 interrupted in 2020, is due above all to a variation in implicit prices (0.7% per year) and, to a lesser degree, to a variation in GVA in volume (0.2% per year). P – Provisional data Source : GPP, from the NA (Base 2016), INE Data last updated: 26 February 2021 Chart 1 – GVA of the agroforestry complex and respective components in value, volume and price (2000=100) Specifically in 2020, the agroforestry complex slowed significantly (-7.4%), in line with the rest of the economy (-7.6%), with negative performance in both components (-7.2% in the agrifood complex and -7.9% in the forestry complex). Like other sectors of the economy, agriculture was negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those crops most impacted by trans- portation and storage, as well as more perishable goods like horticultural products. In animal rear- ing, changes to Portuguese consumption habits during the lockdown influenced demand for these products.