Australia is traditionally a wool, a meat and a wheat exporter. But the part of farm products in the GDP reduced in a 3.3 % while it accounts for 30 % of exports. Australia is the fourth exporter of wheat in the world, but also the leading exporter of sugar cane in the world and supplies with raw sugar to new refineries in Taiwan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. |
The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. They represent 472,000,000 hectares in Australia. |
129,540 |
Crop |
Yield (in Metric Tons) |
Surface (in hectares) |
Yield Hg/ Ha* |
Wheat
|
22,210,000
|
11,500,000
|
19,313
|
Barley
|
5,600,000
|
2,844,000
|
19,691
|
Rice Paddy
|
1,400,000
|
145,000
|
96,552
|
Potatoes
|
1,372,000
|
43,000
|
319,070
|
Oat
|
1,421,000
|
819,000
|
17,350
|
* hectograms/hectares |
Species |
Headcount |
Ovine races
|
116,900,000
|
Cattle
|
25,555,000
|
Pigs
|
2,364,000
|
Horses
|
220,000
|
Poultry ( 1000 )
|
85,000
|
315,000 |
2,400,000 hectares. |
Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods |
Saltwater fish |
77,095 Tm.
|
123,587 Tm.
|
219,499 Tm. |