In 2023, the EU’s total agricultural output was valued at €537 billion.
Data show that 5 regions in the EU, classified at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), have a total agricultural output value above €9 billion. The highest output value was in Andalucía, Spain (€16 billion), followed by Bretagne in France (€11 billion), Weser-Ems in Germany and Lombardia in Italy (€9.8 billion each), and Pays de la Loire in France (€9.3 billion).
This information comes from regional data on the economic accounts for agriculture at current prices published by Eurostat today.
Vegetable and horticultural output varies across regions
Within the EU’s total agricultural output, the value of vegetables and horticultural products was €71.5 billion in 2023. This was the highest value of any of the crop products and represented 13.3% of the overall total.
Among EU regions, the output value of vegetable and horticultural products in 2023 was highest in Andalucía, Spain (€5.2 billion) and Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands (€5.0 billion). Puglia and Campania in Italy and Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands followed, each producing output valued at €1.8 billion. In total, there were 14 EU regions that generated output values of vegetable and horticultural products greater than €1 billion: 5 in Italy, 5 in the Netherlands and 4 in Spain.
In 4 NUTS 2 regions, the share of the output value of vegetable and horticultural products in total agricultural output exceeded 50%: Wien in Austria (77.2%), Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands (68.4%), Liguria in Italy (65.0%) and Hamburg in Germany (50.8%). In another 16 regions, vegetable and horticultural products represented between 30% and almost 50% of the total agricultural output value, ranging from 31.7% in La Rioja, Spain to 48.5% in Noord-Holland in the Netherlands.
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