The FINANCIAL — How many people work in the agricultural sector in each EU Member State? How have prices changed over recent years? Which Member State is the biggest producer of cereals, tomatoes, apples, meat or milk? How important are the forest resources in the European Union? Find answers in statistics provided by EuroStat.
Highest concentration on crops in Romania, on animal production in Ireland
In 2014, crops represented just over half (52%) of the total agricultural output of the EU, while animal products accounted for 43%. Crops contributed most to national agricultural output in Romania (73%), Greece (69%), Bulgaria (65%) and Croatia (62%), while animals were particularly significant in Ireland (70%), Denmark (63%) and Finland (60%). The distribution of the total agricultural output was closely balanced between crops and animals in Germany (47% for crops, compared with 49% for animals), Slovenia (50% and 48%), Sweden (46% and 48%), Latvia (50% and 47%), Cyprus (52% and 48%), Poland (47% and 51%), Luxembourg (47% and 52%) and the Netherlands (48% and 42%).
France and Germany produce nearly 40% of cereals in the EU
In the European Union, 305.7 million tonnes of cereals were produced in 2013. France (67.3 mn t, 22% of total EU production) remained the largest producer, followed by Germany (47.8 mn t or 16%), Poland (28.5 mn t or 9%), Spain (25.4 mn t or 8%), Romania (20.9 mn t or 7%) and the United Kingdom (20.0 mn t or 7%).
Italy leads for tomatoes, Poland for apples
With a production of 5.2 million tonnes in 2013, Italy accounted for over a third (35%) of the production of tomatoes in the EU (14.9 mn t), ahead of Spain (3.8 mn t or 25%), Portugal (1.2 mn t or 8%) and Greece (1.0 mn t or 7%). For carrots, Poland and the United Kingdom (both 0.7 mn t or 14% each of the 5.1 mn t the EU produced) were the two main producers in 2013, followed by Germany and the Netherlands (both 0.6 mn t or 11% each), and France (0.5 mn t or 10%). Almost half of the EU production of onions (5.7 mn t) was recorded in the Netherlands (1.3 mn t or 23%) and Spain (1.2 mn t or 21%). The production of apples in the EU amounted to 12.0 million tonnes in 2013, of which 26% (3.1 mn t) were produced in Poland, 18% in Italy (2.2 mn t) and 17% in France (2.1 mn t).
A quarter of pig meat is produced in Germany
With a production of 5.5 million tonnes, corresponding to 25% of the EU total, Germany was in 2013 the main producer of pig meat in the European Union, followed by Spain (3.4 mn t or 16%), while France was the main producer of bovine animals meat (1.4 mn t or 19% or EU total production). France also had the largest production of poultry meat in 2013, just ahead of the United Kingdom and Poland (all around 1.7 mn t). Together, these three Member States accounted for 40% of EU total production of poultry meat. For cows’ milk, Germany (31.3 mn t or 20% of EU total production) and France (24.4 mn t or 16%) were by far the two main producers in the European Union in 2013.
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