Brief description
OverviewSince 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable-growing farm businesses to provide industry and government with information about farm-level production and the financial situation of vegetable growers. This web-report presents an overview of the physical characteristics of the vegetable-growing industry from 2006-07 to 2016-17.
Key Issues
• Queensland and Victoria are the two largest vegetable-growing states, together accounting for 55 per cent of the total value of vegetable production in 2015-16.
• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the total number of Australian vegetable-growing farms fell by 37 per cent largely as result of a decline in the number of small vegetable-growing farms planting less than 20 hectares. Most of the decline was in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the intensity of vegetable production increased with the proportion of total farm cropping area planted to vegetables trending upwards in all states except Western Australia and Tasmania.
• The average area planted to vegetables per farm increased from 2006-07 to 2016-17 mainly due to increased plantings of a range of more intensive vegetable crops such as Asian greens and other specialty vegetables.
Full description
Australian vegetable-growing farms - Physical characteristics - link to the ABARES website - KeyDocument 01 \r\n This set of sections for the Farm Surveys webpages provides updates for the Australian vegetable-growing farms - Physical characteristics.Information about the product description - Department of Agriculture and Water Resources : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences\r\n Data Manager\r\n GPO Box 858\r\n CANBERRA CITY\r\n Australian Capital Territory 2601 AUSTRALIA\r\n Voice: +61 2 6272 4548
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Subjects
Australia |
Farming |
agricultural commodities |
costs |
farms |
financial performance |
income |
physical |
profit |
vegetables |
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Identifiers
- Local : pb_avgfb9absf20171020
- URI : data.gov.au/data/dataset/0d487ebc-f3e2-4c24-b3fe-0f6ac8d1dec0
