Supply balance sheets are used to represent the supply and use of agricultural production (food and feedstuffs). One key aspect is to provide information on the food sector subordinated to agriculture. But the balance sheets also provide information on such parameters as the degree of self-sufficiency or per capita consumption.
Over the past crop year 2010/11, Austria’s agriculture produced around 4.8 million tonnes of cereal, 429 700 tonnes of fruit, 654 000 tonnes of vegetables, 671 700 tonnes of potatoes, 352 100 tonnes of oil seeds, 3.1 million tonnes of sugar beet and 1.7 million hl of wine. The degree of self-sufficiency was 88 per cent for cereal, 66 per cent for wine, 61 per cent for vegetables, 52 per cent for fruit and 26 per cent for vegetable oils. The total agricultural foreign trade volume amounted to EUR 17.8 billion (imports: EUR 9.3 billion; exports: EUR 8.5 billion). This corresponded to a share of 7.4 per cent of the total foreign trade volume of EUR 242.4 billion.
The crop sector comprises 12 main groups with 90 detailed balances and refers to the period from July 1, to June 30 (crop year). For the wine balance, the crop year runs from August 1, to July 31; from 2007/08 on, the crop year for sugar runs from October 1, to September 30.
In 2010 domestic agriculture produced the following animal products: 925 400 tonnes of meat, 3.29 million tonnes of cow’s milk, 1.55 billion eggs and 3 300 tonnes of fish. Domestic consumption amounted to 836 500 tonnes of meat (99.7 kg per capita), 747 200 tonnes of drinking milk (89.1 kg per capita), 1.95 billion eggs (233 eggs per capita) and 61 000 tonnes of fish (7.3 kg per capita). The degree of self-sufficiency was 111 per cent for meat, 109 per cent for cheese, 75 per cent for eggs and 71 per cent for butter. The total agricultural foreign trade volume amounted to EUR 16.3 billion (imports: EUR 8.7 billion; exports: EUR 7.3 billion). This corresponded to a share of 7.3 per cent of the total foreign trade volume of EUR 223.0 billion.
The animal sector comprises 6 main groups with 27 detailed balances and refers to the period from January 1, to December 31 (calendar year).
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