Number of farms cultivating fresh vegetables

RecordSTO-5R3B1021CT-DFE0DBPYSV-QG89G4

709,000
estimate

European Union · 2020

Number of farms cultivating fresh vegetables in the European Union was 709,000 in 2020 (Eurostat).

Original source
Publisher
Eurostat
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
About 1.5 million holdings (hereafter termed 'farms') in the European Union (EU) managed fruit orchards and about 0.7 million farms cultivated fresh vegetables
Retrieved
23 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

About 709 000 farms in the EU cultivated fresh vegetables in 2020, which was equivalent to about one in every thirteen (7.8 %) of all the EU's farms.

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APA

Statistical Office of the European Union. (2020). The fruit and vegetable sector in the EU - a statistical overview. Retrieved September 23, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=The_fruit_and_vegetable_sector_in_the_EU_-_a_statistical_overview. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4

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MLA
Statistical Office of the European Union. "The fruit and vegetable sector in the EU - a statistical overview." 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=The_fruit_and_vegetable_sector_in_the_EU_-_a_statistical_overview. Accessed 23 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4.
Chicago
Statistical Office of the European Union. "The fruit and vegetable sector in the EU - a statistical overview." 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=The_fruit_and_vegetable_sector_in_the_EU_-_a_statistical_overview. Accessed September 23, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4.
BibTeX
@misc{eurostat2020numberqg89g4, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {The fruit and vegetable sector in the EU - a statistical overview}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=The\_fruit\_and\_vegetable\_sector\_in\_the\_EU\_-\_a\_statistical\_overview. Accessed September 23, 2026.} }

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Publisher
Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
The fruit and vegetable sector in the EU - a statistical overview
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
About 1.5 million holdings (hereafter termed 'farms') in the European Union (EU) managed fruit orchards and about 0.7 million farms cultivated fresh vegetables
Retrieved
23 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
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Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
pipeline:quote-verified-v2
Checked on
27 September 2026
Last revision
27 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4