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Europe > Germany > Agriculture

GERMAN AGRICULTURE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural growth 92 [120th of 149]
Agricultural land > % of land area 48.83 % of land area Time series [30th of 198]
Agricultural land > sq. km 170,300 sq. km Time series [15th of 198]
Agricultural machinery > tractors 944,000 Time series [9th of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland 12,020 thousand hectares [23rd of 148]
Arable land > % of land area 34.13 % of land area Time series [12th of 199]
Arable land > hectares 11,903,000 hectares Time series [14th of 199]
Banana imports $689.00 million [2nd of 9]
Cereal production 92 thousand metric tons [120th of 149]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare 6,657.5 kg/ha Time series [9th of 171]
Cotton exports 60 thousand bales [32nd of 109]
Cotton production 0 [98th of 109]
Fertilizer use 228.2 kg [13th of 138]
Food production index 102.9 % Time series [122nd of 182]
Labor share 2.4% [143rd of 149]
Meat production 6,069 thousand metric tons [5th of 149]
Pesticide use 2.5 kg [11th of 45]
Products
potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry
Tractors 1,030,800 [8th of 147]
value added > annual % growth -4.93 % Time series [124th of 164]

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SOURCES: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; Food and Agricultural Organization (1998); United States Department of Agriculture; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutschland, west germany

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