estonian agriculture, rural economy and food industry

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TABLE 4.
Number of agricultural enterprises as of 1 January 2001
Associations and state-owned enterprises
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
1 013 983 873 854 803 734 680
2001
709
Agricultural ancillary enterprises
95
87
52
44
31
33
25
68
Farms
10 153
13 513
19 767
22 722
34 671
41 446
51 081
60 895
Average farm size
24,8
23,1
20,8
22,0
21,7
21,2
20,8
20,7
(Source: ESO annual publication “Agriculture 2000”)
TABLE 5.
Types of production
2000 Percentage of
total output
Total crop production
Grains
Oil crops
Legumes
Potatoes
Vegetables and
fruits, berries,
and others
100%
36,7%
1,4%
1,7%
25,3%
16,1%
18,8%
38%
TABLE 6.
Many small farms have emerged
The number of associations and state-owned
enterprises has decreased in the post-reform years.
The last state-owned enterprise was privatised in
2001. The number of agricultural ancillary
enterprises has also decreased. The number of
farms has grown, but farm size has decreased
(Table 4).
Grain and dairy farms are
most common
Agricultural holdings specialise in three types of
production: 45% of the farms engage in crop production,
21% in dairy farming, and 31% in mixed
production (crop and livestock production).
The most common crop type is grain, the output
of which accounts for 36.7% of total crop production.
Dairy farming is the most common area of
livestock farming, where milk products constitute
45.9% of the total livestock production.
Livestock
production
Bovines
Pigs
Sheep
Milk
Other
100%
10,1%
22,1%
0,2%
45,9%
21,8%
(Source: Ministry of Agriculture, using EUROSTAT methods)
62%
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