Austria Agriculture

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Since Austria is mountainous, it does not favour the growth of Austrian agriculture. The main agricultural regions are the High and Low Austria, Styrie and Burgenland. Moreover, the peculiarity of the Austrian agriculture is the large number of farms managed in part-time.

Farmland surface area:

The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. They represent 1,479,000 hectares in Austria.

Number of farms:

273,210

Crops

Crop	Yield (in Metric Tons)	Surface (in hectares)	Yield Hg/ Ha*
Sugar beets	2,600,000	43,219	601,587
Corn	1,800,000	187,802	95,846
Wheat	1,313,000	293,8	44,69
Barley	854,7	223,762	45,614
Potatoes	496,302	23,737	209,084

Livestock

Species	Headcount
Poultry	360,812
Pigs	3,790,000
Cattle	2,150,000
Horses	75,347
Goats	54,2

Number of tractors:

352,375

Irrigated land (surface area):

2,400,000 hectares.

Fishing yield in metric tons:

Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods	Saltwater fish
3 Mt.	0 Tm.

Aquacultural yield in metric tons:

2,000 Tm.