!!!Milchwirtschaft

Dairy Farming: In 1998 103 companies were in dairy farming in Austria, 
96 with their own delivery service (28 dairies, 68 cheeseries and 
Alpine dairies); the majority of companies is located in the western 
provinces. 72 dairy farming companies are members of  agricultural 
co-operatives. A characteristic feature of Austrian dairy farming is 
the fact that more milk is produced than is needed for domestic 
consumption; in 1998, milk supply amounted to 2,445,932 t, more 
than 75% of which was milk of top quality (with less than 100,000 
bacteria per ml). The production of regular milk ranked first (508,035 
tons), followed by non-perishable milk (98, 596 tons), cheese (85,009 
tons) butter (38,878 tons), whipped cream (30,246 tons), cream (23,515 
tons), soft curd cheese (21,745 tons), skim milk powder (17,872 tons) 
and evaporated milk (18,174 tons). Most of the cattle bred in Austria 
are mixed meat and dairy breeds.

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Until 1992 Austrian dairy farming was fairly strictly organized; the 
market organisation law was amended in 1993, giving effect to a series 
of measures designed to liberalise dairy farming and, since 1994, 
regulating the agreements on milk deliveries between farmers and the 
processing industries on a uniform private enterprise basis. At the 
same time the commitment of dairy farmers to primary co-operative 
societies was abolished. In 1998 the production value of Austrian 
dairy farming amounted to some ATS 21 billion (1993: ATS 25 
billion), the number of those employed in the industry was about 3,500 
(1993: about 5,000). Fundamental structural changes in  agricultural 
policy since Austria´s entry into the European Union in 1995 led 
to co-operations in production and marketing between the companies and 
resulted in cutbacks.


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