IN FOCUS / 2015-11-18
Number of organic farms up 30% in the last ten years
In 2013, there were a total of roughly 285,000 agricultural holdings in Germany. 18,000 of them (6%) produced their products in accordance with the EU provisions on organic farming. The number of organic farms in Germany has markedly increased in the last few years. It was up 30% between 2003 and 2013. The agricultural area used by organic farms has grown, too. While it comprised roughly 731,000 hectares in 2003, the figure was just over a million hectares in 2013 (+43%).
The total number of agricultural holdings fell by 32% in the same period. The utilised agricultural area of all holdings, however, did not change much (-2%).
Tables
Agricultural holdings
- Selected features in a time comparison
- Agricultural used area by main types of uses
- Agricultural holdings and utilised agricultural area by size of the utilised agricultural area
- Agricultural holdings with the legal form of sole proprietorship by type of operation
- Agricultural holdings by the legal form of the agricultural holding and type of operation
- Agricultural holdings total and holdings with organic farming
- Agricultural holdings by general type of farming
Employees and farm succession
- Persons employed in the agricultural holdings
- Continuing the holding, "farm succession" in sole proprietorships - Census of agriculture: final results