Deutscher Bauernverband
Main Features of Farming in Germany
European Economic and Social Committee Meeting of the Farmers' Category
Contact
Adalbert Kienle
Deutscher BauernverbandClaire-Waldoff-Straße 710117 Berlin Internet: www.bauernverband.de
Deutscher BauernverbandAgricultural Production in Comparison to EU 27
Germany as the second largest agricultural producer of the EU:
→ Agricultural production value in 2011 = 52,9 billion Euro
Therefore: Germany has a shareof 13 percent of the EU agricultural production
Deutscher BauernverbandAgricultural Production in Comparison to EU 27
German agriculture and its shares of the agricultural production of EU 27 (by products: rape, pork, milk, potatoes, sugar, cereals, beef, eggs, poultry)
Germany is leading in product sectors:• Milk
• Pork
• Potatoes
• Rape
Deutscher BauernverbandFeatures of German Agriculture 2010
Utilised agricultural area (UUA) of 16,7 million ha + 11 million ha forest (82 percent of the area of Germany)
300.000 farmholdings with more than 5 ha:
• Almost one half = part-time farms• 2 percent legal persons (18 percent of UAA)
• 7 percent partnerships (16 percent of UAA)
• 34.000 farms > 100 ha (16 percent of UAA)
• 1.500 farms > 1.000 ha (15 percent of UAA)
• 72 percent of all farmholdings with livestock
Productivity: One farmer feeds 135 fellow citizens
Deutscher BauernverbandAgriculture as an Economic Sector
Agriculture is a small sector of German economy• decline of its importance during the 20th century
• today: 0,9 percent of German GDP and 667.000 employees (1,6percent)
but: Agribusiness (up- and downstream sectors) is still important for German economy
• 7 percent of the German GDP
• 12 percent of all German employees (2010: 4,8 million employees)
Deutscher BauernverbandFarmholdings in Germany
293.900 farmholdings(2011) in Germany with an utilised agricultural area of 16,7 million ha→ on average: one farm has an area of 57 ha
Number of farmholdingswith an area of 100 ha and more is constantly growing
German Farmholdings 2010 (Classified by Size)
Deutscher Bauernverband
4,627,833,434,2Area(percentage)
14,719,022,044,3Farms(percentage)
othersmixedplant productionmilk-/beef-production
Farmholdings by Type of Production
72 percent of all farmholdings with livestock (2010):• 12,5 million cattles
• 27,6 million pigs
• 128,9 million poultry
• 462.000 horses and donkeys
• 2,1 million sheeps
• 150.000 goats
Deutscher BauernverbandStructure of Pig Farmers in Germany
Deutscher BauernverbandStructure of Dairy Farmers in Germany
Deutscher BauernverbandBioenergy and Agriculture
Bioenergy as an attractive source of income
Farmers as important investors: own 72 percent of all biogas plants in Germany (2.300 megawatts)
Increasing cultivation of renewable raw materials: 2,28 million ha in 2010 (19 percent of the agricultural crop land)
Biomass as most important source for the production of renewable heat: 92 percent (2010)
Deutscher Bauernverband
Agricultural Business Barometer (September 2012)
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20102003 2011 2012
34,1
German Farmers: Good Mood Continues
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