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Analysis of the economic situation of organic farming
Project
Project code: TI-BW-08-PID1431
Contract period: 01.01.1996
- 31.12.2020
Purpose of research: Basic research
The organic area shall further grow in view of the German government. This requires that the organic management is profitable. Book-keeping records of the Farm Accountancy Network provide relevant information, if this was the case in the last years. The economic performance of organic farming has a major influence on the development of the organic sector. The income development in organic farms is therefore analysed every year on the basis of bookkeeping results from the German Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN, data from representatively selected farms in Germany). In order to be able to assess the financial situation of organic farming in Germany, the income of organically managed FADN farms is compared to the income of comparable conventional farms. Since the regional distribution and the farm structures of organic farms differ significantly, it does not make sense to compare the average organic farms with the average of all conventional farms. That is why every organic farm is only comparable to conventional farms with similar locational conditions (for example same region and farm type, similar soil conditions) and equipment (for example similar amount of land, similar milk quotas). The selected conventional individual farms are aggregated into one group for comparison so that for each organic farm a conventional comparison group is available.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agroeconomics
- Organic Farming