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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The almost chronic crisis in agriculture has caused the agricultural sector in Baden-Württemberg to shrink further over the past ten years.
The number of agricultural businesses in the southwest fell by 11.5 percent between 2010 and 2020 to just 39,400, as the State Statistical Office announced on Thursday in Stuttgart.
The basis for the data are the results of a new agricultural census.
The last such count to date was in 2010.
Even then, the number of farms was already declining.
The percentage of farms that do their business with keeping pigs, dairy cows or cattle has now fallen particularly sharply.
The number of pig farms has been reduced by more than half (54.2 percent) to just under 4,000 within ten years.
For milk producers, the decrease is 42.1 percent; a good 6,200 farms are still active here.
The number of farms with animal husbandry fell within ten years by 23.6 percent to 21,500.
This also has an impact on the animal population.
The number of pigs fell by 21.9 percent to 1.67 million, the dairy cow herd fell by 6.7 percent to 330,200. In contrast, statisticians recorded increases in the number of laying hens and goats in particular.
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The crisis in agriculture, caused for example by cheap prices for food, had recently intensified again.
More and more farmers see themselves in need, complain about low producer prices and what they consider to be unfair behavior from large retail chains.
As a result, at the end of 2020 there were a few larger demonstrations by farmers.
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Report from the State Statistical Office