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Main Features of Farming in Germany

European Economic and Social Committee Meeting of the Farmers' Category

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Agricultural 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 share
• f 13 percent of the EU

agricultural production

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Agricultural 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

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Features 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

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Agriculture 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)

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Farmholdings 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 farmholdings

with an area of 100 ha and more is constantly growing

German Farmholdings 2010 (Classified by Size)

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4,6 27,8 33,4 34,2 Area

(percentage)

14,7 19,0 22,0 44,3 Farms

(percentage)

• thers

mixed plant production milk-/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

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Structure of Pig Farmers in Germany

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Structure of Dairy Farmers in Germany

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Bioenergy 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)

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Agricultural Business Barometer (September 2012)

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2003 2011 2012

34,1

German Farmers: Good Mood Continues

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