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; for sugar the crop year 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 2019 domestic agriculture produced the following animal products: 910 300 tons of meat, 3.82 million tons of cow’s, sheep´s and goat´s milk, 2.09 billion pieces of eggs and 4 600 tons of fish. Domestic consumption amounted to 832 600 tons of meat (93.8 kg per capita), 729 600 tons of drinking milk (82.2 kg per capita), 2.15 billion eggs (242 pcs per capita) and 70 100 tons of fish (7.9 kg per capita). The degree of self-sufficiency was 113% for cheese (incl. processed cheese), 109% for meat, 86% for eggs and 69% for butter.

The total agricultural foreign trade volume (crop and animal sector) for this period amounted to 25.0 bn euros (imports: 12.7 bn; exports: 12.3 bn). This corresponds to a share of 8.0% of the total foreign trade volume of 311.3 bn euros.

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).