Datasheet Agriculture
Forchach
Forchach (Image: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck)
Forchach <> Bolzano/ Bozen
AGRICULTURE
Farms (2000)
Number of farms 12 493
Holdings maintaining organic farming 5
Cattle farms 50.0% 3.4% 6 17
Number of cattle per holder 10.5 9.3
Utilised agricultural area per farm (ha) (Chart) 21.4 9.4
 
Socio-economic structure (2000) Chart
Full-time farms 0.0% 62.3% 0 307
Part-time farms 91.7% 34.7% 11 171
Other farms 8.3% 3.0% 1 15
 
Labour force (2000) Chart
Total labour force 30 2698
Family labour 96.7% 66.6% 29 1798
Non-family labour 3.3% 33.4% 1 900
 
Use of farm land (2000) Chart
Utilised agricultural area (ha) 257 3464
Vinyards (ha) 0.0% 14.5% 0 503
Orchards (ha) 0.0% 26.6% 0 923
Arable land (ha) 0.0% 1.3% 0 44
Meadows and pastures (ha) 100.0% 57.1% 257 1979
 
Lifestock numbers (2000) Chart
Total livestock in livestock units (LSU) 53 152
as percentage of total livestock and number of animals
Cattle 91.7% 90.0% 63 158
Horses 5.7% 1.3% 3 2
Pigs 1.1% 5.7% 2 29
Sheep and goat 1.1% 1.7% 4 17
Poultry 0.4% 1.3% 57 503
 
Percentages have been rounded to one decimal place.