Editing Economy of Austria (section)

==Agriculture, industry and services==
{{Main|Agriculture in Austria|Tourism in Austria}}
[[File:Schneeberg - cows-cropped.jpg|thumb|left|[[Cow]]s near top of mountain [[Schneeberg (Alps)|Schneeberg]]]]

Austrian farms, like those of other west European mountainous countries, are small and fragmented, and production is relatively expensive. Since Austria's becoming a member of the EU in 1995, the Austrian agricultural sector has been undergoing substantial reform under the EU's [[Common Agricultural Policy]] (CAP). Although Austrian farmers provide about 80% of domestic food requirements, the agricultural contribution to [[gross domestic product]] (GDP) has declined since 1950 to less than 3%.

Although some industries are global competitors, such as several iron and steel works, chemical plants and oil corporations that are large industrial enterprises employing thousands of people, most industrial and commercial enterprises in Austria are relatively small on an international scale.
[[File:Kitzbühel by night.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kitzbühel]], one of Austria's famous winter tourist cities]]
Most important for Austria is the service sector generating the vast majority of Austria's GDP. Vienna has grown into a finance and consulting metropole and has established itself as the door to the East within the last decades. Viennese law firms and banks are among the leading corporations in business with the new EU member states. [[Tourism]] is very important for Austria's economy, accounting for around 10 percent of Austria's GDP.<ref>{{cite web | title = Trade and Industry in Austria, Exports, Tourism | url = http://www.austria.info/xxl/_site/uk/_area/417080/_subArea/417098/home.html | publisher = austria.info | year = 2007 | access-date =20 December 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127125951/http://www.austria.info/xxl/_site/uk/_area/417080/_subArea/417098/home.html |archive-date = 27 November 2007}}</ref> In 2001, Austria was the tenth most visited country in the world with over 18.2 million tourists. Previously, dependency on German guests made this sector of the Austrian economy very dependent on German economy. However recent developments have brought a change, especially since winter ski resorts such as [[Arlberg]] or [[Kitzbühel]] are now more and more frequented by Eastern Europeans, Russians and Americans.

Austria produced in 2018:

* 2.3 million tons of [[sugar beet]] (the beet is used to manufacture [[sugar]] and [[ethanol]]);
* 2.1 million tons of [[maize]];
* 1.3 million tons of [[wheat]];
* 697 thousand tons of [[potato]];
* 695 thousand tons of [[barley]];
* 387 thousand tons of [[apple]];
* 367 thousand tons of [[grape]];
* 278 thousand tons of [[triticale]];
* 184 thousand tons of [[soybean]];
* 177 thousand tons of [[rye]] (12th largest world producer);
* 132 thousand tons of [[onion]];
* 120 thousand tons of [[rapeseed]];
* 111 thousand tons of [[pear]];

In addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC/ Austria production in 2018, by FAO]</ref>