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Photo: BMLFUW/KERNEU Agricultural Policy to safeguard the future of mountain farming
At the Conference on the Future of Mountain Areas held from 6 – 7 December 2009 in Alpbach, Tyrol, at the invitation of Austrian Agriculture Minister Niki Berlakovich high-ranking representatives of Alpine countries together with Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel work to collect concrete ideas and development opportunities for mountain areas and develop perspectives to ensure the future of agriculture in mountain areas. > more about: EU Agricultural Policy to safeguard the future of mountain farming
10.02.2010, Lebensministerium Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
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Photo: BMLFUWAustria is European alpine pasture champion
Austria is Europe’s country of alpine pastures. One quarter of all European alpine pastures are located in our country. We can be proud of the work performed by the farmers and farm women who tend, and will also in the future care for, this unique cultural landscape. Alpine pastures are very hard to manage; in extreme locations they are often accessible only by foot. We will have to take all necessary efforts also in the future to support farmers and farm women in their difficult work and to preserve this cultural area. > more about: Austria is European alpine pasture champion
10.12.2008, Lebensministerium Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
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Photo: BMLFUW / HOPI-Medi...Alpine pastures – Landmarks of the cultivated landscape
Alpine pastures and mountain meadows, which are substantial in particular in the western Federal Provinces, account for about one quarter of the agriculturally used area in Austria. In the Provinces Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg almost 50 percent of the land are classified as “alpine pastures”. Totally, Austria has about 9,000 alpine pastures, covering 470,000 hectares of alpine land. 30,000 farmers drive 422,000 head of livestock (cattle, horses, sheep and goats) to the alpine pastures, a practice which guarantees species-appropriate keeping and animal health. > more about: Alpine pastures – Landmarks of the cultivated landscape
10.12.2008, Lebensministerium Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
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Photo: BMLFUWCompensatory allowance in less-favoured areas
Upon Austria’s accession to the European Union former direct payments by the Federal government and the Provinces to mountain farmers and holdings in former programme areas were replaced by the subsidisation measure “Compensatory allowance in less-favoured areas and national aid”. > more + downloads about: Compensatory allowance in less-favoured areas
14.01.2010, Lebensministerium II/7
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Zoning of mountain farms – Mountain Farm Cadastre
Zoning is an instrument to determine the “handicap” of mountain farms. It was first applied in 1974 as the basis for the eligibility to mountain farm subsidies. Mountain farmers with a holding in zone 4, whose farms have the highest share of steep areas, reach a correspondingly high number of points in the Mountain Farm Cadastre, so that the handicaps for farm management can be made up for by higher compensations. > more about: Zoning of mountain farms – Mountain Farm Cadastre
10.12.2008, Lebensministerium Öffentlichkeitsarbeit