In 2023, 48.3 million tonnes of potatoes had been harvested within the EU, a slight improve in contrast with 2022 when 47.5 million tonnes had been harvested.
Nonetheless, there was a long-term decline within the harvested manufacturing of potatoes; the extent of manufacturing in 2023 was 27.9 million tonnes lower than in 2000, equal to a fall of 36.7%.
This info comes from an in depth Statistics Defined article printed by Eurostat right now, which appears to be like at these EU farms producing potatoes, the manufacturing of and costs for potatoes, in addition to commerce in potatoes.
At nation degree, Germany was the most important producer of potatoes within the EU in 2023 (11.6 million tonnes, 24.0% of the EU complete), adopted by France (17.9%) and the Netherlands (13.4%). Collectively, these 3 EU nations accounted for a majority (55.4%) of the harvested manufacturing of potatoes within the EU in 2023.
Supply dataset: apro_cpsh1
Few EU farms produce natural potatoes
There have been 9.1 million farms within the EU in 2020, of which 1.0 million farms produced potatoes.
In 2020, 25 000 farms within the EU produced potatoes based on natural manufacturing strategies. This represented solely 2.5% of all farms producing potatoes. Austria had the best share of farms producing potatoes organically (25.6%).
Supply dataset: af_lus_allcrops
For extra info
- Statistics Defined article on the EU potato sector – manufacturing, costs and commerce
- Database on agriculture
- Thematic part on agriculture
- Key figures on the European meals chain – 2023 version
Methodological notes
A complete farm construction survey (FSS) is carried out by EU nations each 10 years. They gather info from particular person agricultural holdings, overlaying land use, livestock numbers, rural growth (for instance, actions apart from agriculture) and administration and farm labour enter (together with age, intercourse and relationship to the holder). Within the FSS, natural information has been collected for the reason that 2000 Census.