STAATSMINISTERIUM FÜR ENERGIE, KLIMASCHUTZ, UMWELT UND LANDWIRTSCHAFT
Agriculture and food industry 2023 Facts and figures
Unit
Saxony
Germany
1,000 ha 1,000 ha percent 1,000 ha percent 1,000 ha percent
1,845 992 54 494 27 44 2
35,760 18,021 50 10,680 30 823 2
thousand number thousand thousand
4,086 221 2,072 25
84,359 236 45,570 555
percent
100 12 3 6 88 9 79 26 53
100 2 0.4 1 98 11 87 38 49
number
5,745 220 1,217 1,103 1,022 644 577 495 248 219
262,776 21,487 44,766 52,568 61,065 44,737 24,897 9,355 2,423 1,478
Area and population Area by type of actual use 1) Total area Agricultural area Percentage of total area Forest area Percentage of total area Water area Percentage of total area Population Total population Inhabitants/km² of total area Total number of persons in employment Persons employed in agriculture, forestry and fishery
Structure of agricultural holdings Legal form 2) All agricultural holdings of which: corporate bodies including: e.G. GmbH of which: natural persons including: partnerships sole proprietorships of which: run on full-time basis run on part-time basis Size structure of holdings 2) Total number of agricultural holdings Holdings of less than 5 ha AA Holding of 5 to less than 10 ha AA Holdings of 10 to less than 20 ha AA Holdings of 20 to less than 50 ha AA Holdings of 50 to less than 100 ha AA Holdings of 100 to less than 200 ha AA Holdings of 200 to less than 500 ha AA Holdings of 500 to less than 1,000 ha AA Holdings of 1,000 ha AA and more
1) Reference date 31.12.2022 2) Saxony: agricultural aid 2022, Germany: main survey on land use 2020
Unit
Saxony
Germany
1,000 ha 1,000 ha percent 1,000 ha percent 1,000 ha 1,000 ha percent
897 190 21 702 78 30 303 68
16,595 4,733 29 11,657 70 373 5,126 60
1,000 ha
386 196 115 14 28 17 21 6 16 113 106 6 16 122 80
6,113 2,981 1,583 160 589 457 666 266 396 1,190 1,088 86 288 2,771 2,028
1,000 ha number
87 958
1,860 36,912
Land use Agriculturally used area (AA) Permanent grassland Percentage of AA Arable land Percentage of AA Fallow land Less-favoured areas 3) Leased AA as percentage of total AA Use of arable land Total cereals including: wheat barley oats rye grain maize, CCM Root crops including: potatoes sugar beet Oil seed crops incl. non food including: rape and turnip rape sun flowers Pulses Forage plants including: green and silage maize Organic farming 4) Utilised agricultural area Holdings
3) A rea classified as being eligible for compensatory allowance in the GAK report of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (GAK = Joint Action for the Improvement of Agrarian Structures and Coastal Preservation) 4) S axony, Germany: reports of the control authorities acc. to Reg. (EC) 834/2007 in connection with Reg. (EC) 889/2008 on the reference date 31.12.2022
Unit
Saxony
Germany
dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t dt/ha 1,000 t
66 2,530 68 1,333 70 801 40 57 49 137 74 122 35 371 324 181 694 1,076 293 2,348
71 43,479 76 22,587 71 11,207 47 755 53 3,132 84 3,837 40 4,295 401 10,683 712 28,201 361 73,207
1,000 ha 1,000 t 1,000 ha
3 32 0.03
131 4,057 1
1,000 t
5
198
Fruit growing (cash crops) Fruit-growing area Fruit crop volume
1,000 ha 1,000 t
4 83
66 1,342
Viticulture Area under vines Wine must yield Wine must crop
1,000 ha hl/ha 1,000 hl
0.53 49 26
101 90 9,053
Carp farming Fish pond area Holdings Food carp production
1,000 ha number t
8 128 1,458
24 1,416 4,131
Yields and crop volumes Arable farming Total cereals (incl. grain maize, CCM) including: wheat barley oats rye grain maize, CCM Rape and turnip rape (including non food) Potatoes Sugar beet Silage maize
Vegetable growing (grown for sale) Outdoor acreage Outdoor crop volume Acreage under high accessible protective covers Crop volume under high accessible protective covers
Sources: ❘ Statistical Office of the Federal Republic of Germany ❘ National Accounting Working Group of the German Federal States ❘ Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ❘ Federal Office for Agriculture and Food ❘ Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony ❘ Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology ❘ Saxon State Control Association e.V. Unless otherwise marked, the data shown are from the year 2022. Figures marked by * are provisional data. The abbreviation "NDA" stands for "no data available".
Saxony
Germany
435 169 499 131 53 62 5,188 11
10,997 3,810 21,330 9,708 1,410 1,508 159,118 454
1,000 t kg/year
1,951 10,061
37,099 8,499
millon eggs eggs/year
931 309
13,224 300
1,000 animals kg kg 1,000 animals kg
20 386 294 210 96
2,726 NDA 351 47,048 96
1.000 t
25 5 20
5,490 985 4,481
Unit
Livestock 5) Total number of cattle including: dairy cows Total number of pigs including: fattening pigs breeding pigs Sheep Total number of hens Solipeds (horses, donkeys, mules, etc. in agricultural holdings)
1,000 animals
Animal production Milk production* Total milk production Milk yield per cow acc. to yield recording 6) Egg production* Commercial egg production Laying performance per hen
Commercial Slaughtering 7) Animals for slaughter* Cattle Average slaughter weight of bulls Average slaughter weight of cows Pigs Average slaughter weight Meat production 8)* Total animals for slaughter including: cattle and calves pigs
Development of organic farming Number of holdings
100,000
1,000
90,000
900
80,000
800
70,000
700
60,000
600
50,000
500
40,000
400
30,000
300
20,000
200
10,000
100
0 2021
2022
2019
2020
2017
2018
2015
2016
2014
2013
2011
2012
2010
2009
2007
2008
2005
2006
2004
0
Source: Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology; reports of the control bodies, Last revised: 08/2023
Number of holdings
Organic land use in ha
Organic land use
Saxony
Germany
333 84 165
5,635 1,484 2,445
number
19 9 4 16 25
253 215 122 298 558
number
21,435
642,408
6,822 898 794
195,044 47,064 19,950
576 3,441 126 167 865
12,587 37,312 8,431 14,576 23,529
14.6 5.5
24.03 14.45
Unit
Structure of food industry enterprises, turnover and export ratio 9) Enterprises * Foodstuffs and fodder including: slaughtering and meat processing bakery production (without long-life bakery products) fruit and vegetable processing milk processing (without ice cream) grinding and hulling fodder production Beverage production Employees in food industry Total turnover* Foodstuffs and fodder including: slaughtering and meat processing bakery production (without long-life bakery products) fruit and vegetable processing milk processing (without ice cream) 10) grinding and hulling fodder production Beverage production Export ratio* Foodstuffs and fodder Beverage production
EUR million
percent
Development of organic farms including processing, trade, storage, import and fodder production as well as on-farm processing Organic farms including processing, trade, storage, import and fodder production Organic farms with on-farm processing 700 600
Number
500 400 300 200 100 2021
2022
2019
2020
2017
2018
2015
2016
2014
2013
2011
2012
2010
2009
2007
2008
2005
2006
2004
0
Source: S axon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology; reports of the control bodies; Last revised: 08/2023
Saxony
Germany
1,960 491
91,325 7,047
233 32 140
5,921 9,885 7,875
13 19
1,493 887
72 139 47 155 95 126 7 3 2 2
6,250 3,841 1,155 1,973 2,718 3,305 1,412 2,112 908 256
1,000 t
NDA NDA NDA
4,103 2,462 2,639
1,000 t
NDA NDA
9,016 7,876
1,000 t
372 232 80 441
20,053 11,102 5,531 23,910
1,000 t
NDA
12,681
Unit
Exports by food industry based on foreign trade statistics 11) Total exports* Total food industry including: milk and dairy products (without cheese and butter) cheese meat and meat products baked products incl. cerealbased preparations nuts and dried fruit vegetable preparations and tinned products cocoa and cocoa products vegetable oils and fats beer spirits tobacco and tobacco products sugar beet and sugar products potatoes and potato products wheat barley maize
EUR million
Production and processing volumes Milk processing 12)* Production of consumer milk Production of other dairy products 13) Production of cheese Milling industry* Total milling including: soft wheat Compound-feed industry 14)* Total processing including: cereals including: oil-seed cake Total compound-feed products Fat processing industry* Processing of oil seeds and fruits
5) Cattle, pigs, sheep: reference date 03.11.2022, Hens and solipeds: reference date 01.03.2020 6) Source: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food 7) Animals of domestic and foreign origin 8) Slaughter weight acc. to the 1st Implementation Regulation for the Act on Meat with a 2% deduction for cooling losses including sheep, goat and horse meat, entrails plus estimate of home-slaughtered sheep meat 9) Enterprises with 20 and more employees 10) For Saxony: enterprises with 50 and more employees 11) Including unprocessed agricultural products 12) Consumer milk = incl. milk in packages over 2 kg 13) Sourmilk, kefir, yoghurt and mixed milk products 14) Business year 21/22
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