Number of farms cultivating fresh vegetables
RecordSTO-5R3B1021CT-DFE0DBPYSV-QG89G4
European Union · 2020
Number of farms cultivating fresh vegetables in the European Union was 709,000 in 2020 (Eurostat).
- 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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Primary source
- 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
- —
- 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
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_5R3B1021CTDFE0DBPYSVQG89G4