Structure of agricultural holdings

European Commission Eurostat

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Austria 2003
Agriculture and fisheries
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

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• Autriche
• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English

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AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES

in focus

Statistics

A farm structure survey was carried out in all EU Member States – except Poland – in 2003. Poland has already executed this survey in 2002. The detailed results are now available for all the Member States. This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on these results, all following the same structure.

Agriculture

36/2005

15

10

Table 5 - Non agricultural activity……...7

1000 holdings

Manuscri pt completed on: 4  .08.2005 Data extracted on: 24.06.2005 ISSN 1562-1340 Catalogue number: KS-NN-05-036-EN-N © European Communities, 2005

Table 4 - Livestock…………….6

Table 2 - Agricultural holdings…4

5

Table 3 - Land use……………..5

Num be r of holdings

20

Agricultural are a

40

35

30

25

C o n t e n t s Table 1 - Labour force…………3

700

500

* ESU measures the economic size of the holdings (see methodological notes).

ESU*

40- >=100 <100 ESU*

1000 ha

1000

900

600

800

Amongst these 140 600 agricultural holdings, - 40% made use of less than one AWU, while 13% made use of 2 or more AWUs; - 22% used less than 5 ha, while 1% used 100 ha or more; - 14% were mixed holdings, while 86% were specialised: dairies 27%, dairies combined with cattle fattening and rearing 13%, cereals, oil seed and protein crops 12%, cattle fattening and rearing 8%, sheep, goats and other grazing livestock 8%, vineyards 5%, pigs and poultry 5%, field cropping 4%, fruit orchards 2% and horticulture 1% (of which 74% under glass); - about 12% practised organic farming.

In Austria, in December 2003 about 140600 agricultural holdings had an economic size of at least 1 ESU (European Size Unit)*, which means about 14% decline compared to 1999. - These holdings employed 161 500 AWUs (annual work units), the equivalent of 161 500 persons working full time; - they made use of 2.7 million ha of agricultural area, which is on average 19.3 hectare per holding (compared to 17 ha in 1999).

40- >=100 <100

0

2-<4 4-<8 8-<16 16- <40

200

1-<2

300

100

Amongst the 140 thousand sole holders - 34% were women; - 22% were aged 55 or more, and 14% younger than 35 years; - 18% had another gainful activity as major occupation.

0 1-<2 2-<4 4-<8 8-<16 16- <40

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Structure of agricultural holdings