Supply balance sheets

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.

• Cereals (common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley, oat, grain maize, triticale, meslin, millet);
• Oil seeds (rape and turnip rape, soya beans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, linseeds, other oil seeds);
• Vegetable fats and oils (rape, sunflower and pumpkin seed oil, other vegetable fats and oils);
• Fruit (apples, pears, strawberries, apricots, bananas, oranges, etc.);
• Vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, cabbages, carrots, onions, etc.);
• Potatoes and potato starch;
• Rice;
• Dried pulses (garden peas and broad beans);
• Honey;
• Sugar;
• Wine (table wine, quality wine and other wine) as well as
• Beer.

Supply balance sheets for the animal sector

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).

• Milk and dairy products (cow’s milk, sheep’s milk, goat’s milk, drinking milk, single and double cream, concentrated milk, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, butter, cheese, processed cheese);
• Meat (beef and veal, pork, lamb and goat, horse, offal, poultry, game and rabbit);
• Poultry (chicken, turkey, duck, goose);
• Eggs (eggs for consumption, hatching eggs, egg products);
• Fish and
• Animal fats (slaughter fat from cattle and pigs, fat from carcass disposal).