at Least at one point, Joachim Rukwied got really into the rave. “The harvest of the past summer promises to be a top-of-the year”, praised the President of the German farmers Association (DBV) yesterday in Berlin. One or two Times he did not take part in the Reading. “We can look forward to,” he promised. “This is the core of healthy grapes.”
Apart from the well-to-fully good wine season Rukwied had to master during the presentation of the situation report of the DBV, however, a balancing act: on the one Hand, he had a very good business of the agricultural holdings in Germany in the Luggage numbers. On the other hand, a historically dry summer is full of crop failures behind the farmers.
Since the economy ended the year 2017/18, however, by the end of June of this year, not included the of Rukwied presented in the balance sheet, the largest part of the crop failures. Beat in next year’s report to beech. The farmer President was, therefore, greatest effort, despite the positive development of his warning not to lay the Duktus.
770 applications for Federal and state aid in the state of Brandenburg
And so he, too, began with a review of the “drought summer,” as he called him. The hot and dry weather have caused two to three billion euros of damage, he is expecting and immediately went to the Federal government and the States in the summer of adopted aid. In August, Minister of agriculture, Julia Klöckner (CDU) had declared the drought a weather event, “national-scale” and each of which 170 million euros in support from the Federal government and the länder. The money is intended to help Establishments who see their livelihood due to the drought-threatened.
More than 8,000 such requests were received, said Rukwied. Alone in lower Saxony, there had been around 4000. The application deadline in many countries had not yet expired. Also in Brandenburg, the interest in the program is great. There have been requested in the 770 applications for 93.5 million euros, it is only 46 million are available. “That shows that the amount requested is significantly higher than the Budget,” said Rukwied. Especially the canola and grain harvest was miserable, in the production of vegetables Profit declines of 50 percent is to be expected.
And even that do not suffered from the drought, he anticipates no good prospects for the current financial year. So, Apple have exceeded the crop of 950 000 tonnes of Apples, while the harvest of the previous year to 380 000 tonnes. The sales will probably be lower than a year ago. Blame could be around for years, rising fertilizer prices.
For the future called for Rukwied to get from the policy, other risk management options available. “It is overdue, a tax-free risk equalisation reserve”, – said Rukwied. “This is the Tool we need.”
by June, the shops were running well
Given these Figures, it could be overlooked that the business of the farmers in the past fiscal were year good. On average, the company’s improved results of the 11 900 considered peasants by a fifth compared to the previous year to 65 200 euros per operation. Some of the companies were able to offset the declines of the previous years, knew Rukwied to reports, after pushed, but immediately: “The reserves are there, where it was dry, not be sufficient to ensure that the failures of the fiscal year 18/19 offset.”
Overall, showed a heterogeneous picture of agricultural holdings in the past fiscal year. Especially good for dairy farmers, while farms of the animal husbandry could not repeat the results of the previous year. Maybe that’s why Rukwied pointed expressly to the fact that the number of livestock farms in the past eight years, declined from 216 000 to 185 000. This is a Minus of 14 percent – considerably more than the percentage of loss of farms, in General, that amounts to around eight percent.
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In the realms of Agriculture and viticulture, the gains remained stable. Furthermore, the number of farms that embrace organic farming also increases. In this sector, profits rose in the financial year 2018/19.
