PRESS RELEASE: 9.751-193/10

Vienna, 2010-08-30 – According to Statistics Austria´s supply balance sheets for the calendar year 2009 Austrian agriculture produced about 908 700 tons of meat, 3.26 million tons of cow’s-, sheep- and goat milk, 1.51 billion pieces of eggs and 3 000 tons of fish.

In order to cover domestic demand 344 400 tons of meat, 104 000 tons of drink milk and cream, 85 000 tons of cheese, 63 000 tons of fish and 729 million pieces of eggs were imported.

Domestic production of total meat and cheese exceeded domestic demand by 9% and 5%, respectively; the production of eggs covered 74%, that of butter 72% and that of fish 5% of the domestic demand.

The total agricultural foreign trade volume amounted to EUR 15.3 billion (imports: EUR 8.1 billion; exports: EUR 7.2 billion). This corresponded to a share of 8.0% of the total foreign trade volume of EUR 191.3 billion.

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