France agricultural output: vegetables, horticulture
France agricultural output: vegetables, horticulture stood at 6,343.55 EUR million in 2025, according to Eurostat – crop production in EU standard humidity (apro_cpsh1), French agricultural statistics. It is one of the indicators in the Agriculture: annual production and accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1973 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Agriculture: annual production and accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables and horticultural products2 | 6,343.55 | 6,299.31 | 6,135.97 | 6,104.43 | 5,724.43 | 5,647.87 | 6,151.62 | 6,011.64 | 5,787.83 | 5,867.51 | |
| Fresh vegetables (including melons) | 4,471.88 | 4,484.31 | 4,321.3 | 4,263.23 | 3,961.39 | 4,009.75 | 3,292.76 | 3,116.64 | 2,982.65 | 3,071.77 | |
| Plants and flowers | 1,871.67 | 1,815 | 1,814.66 | 1,841.2 | 1,763.04 | 1,638.12 | 2,858.86 | 2,895 | 2,805.17 | 2,795.75 |
Understanding france agricultural output: vegetables, horticulture
Capturing the combined economic output of intensive crop cultivation encompassing both edible garden produce and ornamental plant production, this broad aggregate spans a diverse range of high-value flora. Excluded from this measure are extensive broadacre field crops like cereals and industrial plants, focusing instead on intensive horticulture and floriculture. The underlying financial figures are calculated at basic prices, including product-specific subsidies while excluding product taxes.
Reading this series requires accounting for intense seasonal harvesting patterns and short production cycles that make sub-annual fluctuations sharp, though the reported data is annual. Revisions to preliminary figures are common due to the decentralized nature of horticultural marketing and the rapid turnover of specialized crops. Analysts should avoid treating this aggregate as a single uniform market, because food vegetables and ornamental plants respond to entirely different economic drivers and consumer trends. Comparisons with traditional agricultural outputs must account for the vastly higher labor and capital intensity per unit of land required for these horticultural goods.
Frequently asked questions
- What major sectors are combined within this horticultural output aggregate?
- The measure groups together the cultivation of fresh food vegetables and ornamental plants and flowers.
- Why are preliminary estimates for this category prone to subsequent adjustments?
- The sector comprises numerous small, specialized producers, making complete census data slower to compile.
- Does this category include broadacre field crops such as wheat or maize?
- No, field crops are tracked under separate cereal and industrial crop headings.