Finland joined the European Union in 1995
Capital city: Helsinki
Population: 5,250,275 (July 2009 est.).
Currency: Euro
Language: Finish / Swedish
Finland has a highly industrialized, Largely free-market economy with per capita output roughly that of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy. Its key economic sector is manufacturing - principally the wood, metals, engineering, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Trade is important; Finland's ratio of exports to GDP has risen from a quarter to 37% over the past 15 years. Because of the climate, agricultural development is limited to Maintaining self-sufficiency in basic products. Forestry, an important export earner, provides a secondary occupation for the rural population. Even though Finland's banks and financial markets have avoided the worst of global financial crisis, the world slowdown has hit exports and domestic demand growth and will serve as a brake on economic growth in 2009 and 2010.
GDP - composition by sector
agriculture: 2.8%
Industry: 32.4%
Services: 64.9% (2008 est.).
Source: CIA
Latest news on Finish poultry
13 Apr 2012 - One of the leading Finnish food processing companies, Atria PLC, has recently decided to substantially upgrade and expand its broiler hatchery located in Seinäjoki, Finland. Petersime will be supplying S-line BioStreamer incubators as well as a brand new HVAC system.
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03 Apr 2012 - Eggs completely disappeared from grocery shelves in many regions of Estonia and Finland last month, with the shortage being affiliated to the new rules of production adopted in the EU since the beginning of this year.
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18 Feb 2011 - The majority of the eggs (73%) produced in Finland come from caged systems. This is according to 2010 figures, released by the statistical service department from the Finnish Agriculture Ministry.
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13 Sep 2010 - HKScan Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Denmark’s largest poultry company, Rose Poultry.
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20 May 2010 - The use of antibacterial drugs in animal production leads to emergence of drug resistant bacteria in food producing animals. In recent years, Escherichia coli and Salmonella bacteria, which produce extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) or are resistant to fluoroquinolones, have been found in poultry meat produced in some EU countries and elsewhere in the world.
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