Agriculture and food industry 2022

Unit

Saxony

Germany

1,000 ha 1,000 ha % 1,000 ha % 1,000 ha 1,000 ha %

896 190 21 701 78 30 314 68

16,592 4,730 29 11,658 70 367 9,426 60

1,000 ha

379 186 113 15 30 19 21 6 15 108 104 2 13 134 87

6,069 2,939 1,540 177 631 431 656 258 391 1,054 1,001 38 245 3,040 2,220

83 913

1,802 36,307

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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

1,000 ha number

3) S axony: 2018; Germany: 2005. An updated figure for Germany is expected on completion of the setting's layout in all federal states.

4) S axony: 2020; Germany: Reports of the control authorities acc. to Reg. (EC) 834/2007 in connection with Reg. (EC) 889/2008 on the reference date 31.12.2021

Agriculture and food industry 2022 Facts and figures Publisher: Saxon State Ministry of Energy, Climate Protection, Agriculture and the Environment (SMEKUL) PO Box 10 05 10, 01075 Dresden Citizens' hotline: +49 351 564-20500 E-mail: info@smekul.sachsen.de www.smekul.sachsen.de This publication is co-financed by funds raised by taxation on the basis of the budget approved by the members of the Saxon parliament.

Editorial work: SMEKUL; Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) Layout: genese Werbeagentur GmbH Photo: Katrin Müller von Berneck Editorial deadline: 31.08.2022 Order: This brochure can be ordered free of charge from: Zentraler Broschürenversand der Sächsischen Staatsregierung Hammerweg 30, 01127 Dresden Phone: +49 351 2103671 Fax: +49 351 2103681 E-mail: publikationen@sachsen.de www.publikationen.sachsen.de Distribution: This information is published by the State Government of Saxony in accordance with its statutory duty of informing the public. It may not be used by political parties or their candidates or volunteers for election advertising purposes within the period of six months before an election. This applies to all elections. www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de

Unit

Saxony

Germany

1,000 ha 1,000 ha % 1,000 ha % 1,000 ha %

1,845 994 54 495 27 44 2

35,759 18,059 51 10,670 30 820 2

thousand number thousand thousand

4,043 219 2,053 25

83,237 233 44,920 562

%

100 12 3 6 88 8 80 27 53

100 2 0.4 1 98 11 87 38 49

number

5,701 201 1,200 1,101 1,019 642 586 481 251 220

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 of which: 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: 31.12.2021 2) Saxony: reference date 31.12.2021, Germany: reference date 31.12.2020

Unit

Saxony

Germany

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

Saxony

Germany

Livestock 5) 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

71 2,673 75 1,386 71 798 45 65 53 157 96 179 33 343 418 244 824 1,267 443 3,861

70 42,359 73 21,459 68 10,411 43 766 53 3,326 104 4,462 35 3,505 438 11,312 818 31,945 472 104,839

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)

444 172 609 177 65 64 5,188 11

1,000 anim.

11,040 3,833 23,620 10,883 1,591 1,516 159,118 454

Animal production

1,000 ha 1,000 t 1,000 ha

4 56 0.03

131 4,057 1

5

198

Fruit growing (cash crops) Fruit-growing area Fruit crop volume

1,000 ha 1,000 t

4 77

67 1,260

Viticulture Area under vines Wine must yield Wine must crop

1,000 ha hl/ha 1,000 hl

0.5 45 23

101 85 8,521

Carp farming Fish pond area Holdings Food carp production

1,000 ha number t

8 130 1,696

24 1,487 4,610

Unit

Milk production* Total milk production Milk yield per cow acc. to yield recording 6) Egg production* Commercial egg production Laying performance per hen

Animals for slaughter* Cattle Average slaughter weight of bulls Average slaughter weight of cows Pigs Average slaughter weight

number

number

1,577 9,727

29,897 8,488

millon eggs eggs/year

920 311

13,043 302

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

1,000 anim. kg kg 1,000 anim. kg

17 354 291 182 96

2,905 NDA 350 51,782 97

Export ratio* Foodstuffs and fodder Beverage production

1.000 t

23 5 17

6,125 1,062 4,965

EUR million

%

335 89 172

5,581 1,445 2,565

18 9 4 16 25

255 227 121 291 571

21,704

638,831

5,676 848 843

165,013 40,586 21,011

458 2,537 95 168 853

11,292 30,568 6,493 12,152 21,240

14.7 8.0

23.9 14.3

Unless otherwise marked, the data shown are from the year 2021. Figures marked by * are provisional data. The abbreviation "NDA" stands for "no data available".

Degree of self-sufficiency for plant products

The values in the diagram show the 5-year average of the degrees of self-sufficiency from 2017 to 2021. For milk: values from 2016 to 2020.

The values in the diagram show the 5-year average of the degree of self-sufficiency from 2016/17 to 2020/21.

Germany

Saxony

Pigs

Cereals

Sheep

Rape and turnip rape

Poultry

Potatoes

Milk

Fruit

Eggs

Vegetables 0

20

40

60

80

100

120

in % Source: S axon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, reference year: 2021, values partly provisional Presentation: LfULG, Last revised: 06/2022

140

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

Saxony

Germany

1,690 405

77,652 5,742

200 28 123

4,579 8,391 6,704

14

1,488

Milk processing 12)* Production of consumer milk Production of other dairy products 13) Production of cheese

Fat processing industry* Processing of oil seeds and fruits

Germany

21

816

39 93 48 126 116 86 13 2 2 3

5,626 2,993 1,179 1,453 2,528 2,704 1,151 1,680 629 237

1,000 t

NDA NDA 168

4,447 2,446 2,666

1,000 t

267 208

8,450 7,340

1,000 t

386 249 80 458

20,780 11,987 5,587 23,910

1,000 t

NDA

13,464

EUR million

Production and processing volumes

Compound-feed industry 14)* Total processing including: cereals including: oil-seed cake Total compound-feed products

5) Cattle, pigs, sheep: reference date 03.11.2020; 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 2020/2021

Cattle

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 (LfULG) ❘ Saxon State Control Association e.V.

Unit

Milling industry* Total milling including: soft wheat

Degree of self-sufficiency for animal products

Saxony

Germany

Exports by food industry based on foreign trade statistics 11)

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

1,000 t kg/year

Meat production 8)* Total animals for slaughter including: cattle and calves pigs

Saxony

Structure of food industry enterprises, turnover and export ratio 9)

Employees in food industry

Commercial Slaughtering 7)

1,000 t

Crop volume under high accessible protective covers

Unit

0

20

40

60

in % Source: S axon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology Presentation: LfULG, Last revised: 06/2022

80

100

120

140