Australian vegetable-growing farms - Physical characteristics web-report

Overview \r\n\r\n Since 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable-growing farm businesses to provide industry and government with information about farm-level production and the financial situation of vegetable growers. This web-report presents an overview of the physical characteristics of the vegetable-growing industry from 2006-07 to 2016-17. \r\n\r\n Key Issues \r\n• Queensland and Victoria are the two largest vegetable-growing states, together accounting for 55 per cent of the total value of vegetable production in 2015-16. \r\n• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the total number of Australian vegetable-growing farms fell by 37 per cent largely as result of a decline in the number of small vegetable-growing farms planting less than 20 hectares. Most of the decline was in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. \r\n• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the intensity of vegetable production increased with the proportion of total farm cropping area planted to vegetables trending upwards in all states except Western Australia and Tasmania. \r\n• The average area planted to vegetables per farm increased from 2006-07 to 2016-17 mainly due to increased plantings of a range of more intensive vegetable crops such as Asian greens and other specialty vegetables. \r\n