Trade statistics on fruit and fresh vegetables sector in the EU

About 1.5 million holdings in the European Union manage fruit orchards and about 0.8 million farms cultivate fresh vegetables

A little over 1.5 million farms in the EU managed fruit orchards in 2016, which was equivalent to about one in every seven (14.8 %) of all the EU's farms which had some utilised agricultural area. A small majority of the EU's farms that had fruit orchards were located in three Member States: Romania (21.6 % of the EU total), Spain (17.1 %) and Italy (14.8 %).

Eurostat statistics gives an extensive statistical overview of the fruit and vegetable sector in the EU.

• Where are fruit and vegetables grown in the EU? By how many farms? Over what area?
• Output values
• Trade
• Processing