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Agriculture - Statistics - Greater Hobart (SD)

Greater Hobart (SD)

Location map for SD: 605

Introduction

Greater Hobart Statistical Division comprises of Hobart, the second oldest capital city in Australia. It is the smallest capital city and was founded in 1804. It is sited on the banks of the Derwent River, and the Division is Tasmania's principal industrial region and the administrative focal point.

The climate is mild, cool in summer and rarely freezing in winter. Mount Wellington , 1271 metres, watches over the City of Hobart and the surrounding area like a great sentinel, covered in snow in winter and often covered in clouds. Most of the Division's population is spread along the shores of the Derwent, and nestled up to the lower slopes of Mount Wellington and the surrounding hills.

There are fish processing factories at Margate and Snug, which lie to the west of , and are protected by, North Bruny Island. At Lutana there is the Electrolytic Zinc Works.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data has been analysed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available from the Australian Spatial Data Directory

The figures and text are reproduced with permission of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics

Area of region (ha): 136,019.03

Area

Agroforestry

Apples

Berry Fruit

Cattle and Calves

Cereals excluding Rice

Grapes

Legumes

Non-Cereal Forage Crops

Oilseeds

Other Livestock

Other Non-Cereal Crops

Other Vegetables

Pastures

Pears

Pigs

Potatoes

Poultry

Sales of Livestock

Sheep and Lambs

Stone Fruit

Further information

Please Note: Not all the selected data items are available for every year or for every statistical region.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data have been analysed by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia to report them using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available through the Australian Spatial Data Directory.

The subset includes 436 data items for plant production and 40 data items for livestock which were commonly available in the AgStats database over the 15 year period and each year for respondents having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) above the cut-off of $22,500.

The data have been concorded by bringing data collected using different geographies to a consistent geographic base, being Version 2.6 Statistical Local Area (SLA) boundaries (ABS, 1996) and using the non-agricultural lands mask from the National Land and Water Resources Audit's National Landuse Map (1996/1997).

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