Fruit
2011 fruit harvest
According to Statistics Austria, 269 000 tons of dessert
fruits were produced in 2011, which meant an increase of 13% compared
to the results of 2010 as well as to the ten years average. Especially
pome fruit with 235 700 tons
Survey of commercial plantations
This survey, to be conducted every five years under the provisions of EU Directive 2001/109/EC, provides comprehensive data on the area planted and the variety of fruit planted in fruit plantations as well as detailed information on the number and the age of trees and their regional density in Austria.
Survey on fruit plantations 2007
The survey on fruit plantations carried out by Statistics Austria in 2007 with reference date first of June, brought detailed information concerning orchards cultivated with pome fruit, stone fruit, soft fruit (berries), elderberries, walnuts and chestnuts. Furthermore additional information on other structural characteristics such as organic farming and product marketing was collected.
The number of holdings - already reduced significantly
from 1997 to 2002
24.7 million fruit trees were counted, that meant a surplus of 3 million
trees
On the reference date the Austrian orchard plantations covered a net area of 12 400 ha (calculated from tree numbers and planting distances) which meant an increase of 7% (790 ha) compared with the previous survey. 7 700 ha or 62% consisted of pome fruit plantations, which actually showed an increase of the area (referring to 2002) though the percentage was reduced by two points. The percentage of berry plantations raised to 15% with 1 900 ha, whereas the relative quota of stone fruit plantations stayed almost unchanged with 12%or 1 400 ha. On 1 200 ha (10%) elderberries were cultivated, walnuts and sweet chestnuts covered 143 ha (1%).
The most evident area expansion of almost 280 ha was
registered regarding apples, which as usual represented the most important fruit
species cultivated in Austria with 7 200 ha
During the last five years a considerable area expansion
as a result of new planting was also detected for apricots
With an area share of 65% Styria was way ahead with regard to the importance of Austrian
fruit cropping even though it lost three percentage points compared
to 2002. Slight increases in area
Apple orchards comprised 98% varieties of winter apples which at 7 200 ha accounted for 58% of the total fruit-growing area. The most frequently cultivated varieties of winter apple were again Golden Delicious (24%). Gala –only ranked fourth in 2002 – captured the second rank with an area share of 19%, followed by Jonagold (12%) and Idared (11%). The main summer apple varieties were unchanged Summer Red (39%), Early Gold (20%) and Delbar Estivale (11%).
Of the cultivated area for pears, which at 510 ha accounted for 4% of the total fruit-growing areas, the proportion of winter varieties increased to 270 ha (53%) while summer varieties covered only 47% (240 ha). The main variety of winter pear is the preferably in organic farming cultivated Uta (27%) closely followed by Bosc (25%), Gute Luise (13%), Packham’s Triumph (10%) and Alexander Lucas (8%).
The predominant variety of summer pear was the Williams Christ Pear (93%), still 5% of the area was covered by Clapp’s Liebling.
More than half of the cultivated area of pome fruit
(53%) was covered with at least 10 year old or older trees (year of
plantation ≤ 1998), 17% of the area were younger cultivations (year
of plantation 2005
442 farms (10%) were accredited organic farms most of them located in Lower Austria (171) followed by Styria (138) and Burgenland (70). More than half (51%) of the organically cultivated total area (1 100 ha) was covered with pome fruit, 18% with berry plantations, 14% with elderberries, 9% with stone fruit and 8% walnuts and sweet chestnuts. Within the individual product groups walnuts and sweet chestnuts claimed the highest share (59%) of organic cultivation, elderberry had a share of 13%, berry fruits 11% and pome- and stone fruit 7% each.
60% of farms reported that they sold their produce through direct marketing, 35% market their produce through a producers’ organization, 34% produced fruit for processing and one quarter of the farms brought their produce to private costumers and food retailing; multiple responses were possible for each farm.
With regard to the area of cultivation the most common marketing channel was to market the produce through a producers’ organization (49%), followed by trading and direct marketing (22% each); 7% of the area was cultivated for processing purposes.
Pome fruit was mainly (64%) marketed through a producers’ organization while for stone fruit direct marketing (38%) and trading (29%) were the most important marketing channels. Berry fruit was mainly (53%) sold through direct marketing.
| Fruit production 2011 by Laender |  |  |  |
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| Fruit production 2010 by Laender | | | |
| Fruit production 2009 by Laender | | | |
| Fruit production 1975 to 2011 | | | |
| Orchards 1989 to 2007 by Laender | | | |
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