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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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Deutscher BauernverbandStructure of Pig Farmers in Germany
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Deutscher BauernverbandStructure of Dairy Farmers in Germany
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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)
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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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Deutscher BauernverbandThank you for your attention!