France crop harvest: potatoes
France crop harvest: potatoes stood at 10,201.93 thousand tonnes 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 2000 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvested production (EU standard humidity) | |||||||||||
| Potatoes | 10,201.93 | 9,240.57 | 8,602.89 | 8,061.84 | 8,978.95 | 8,823.89 | 8,689.69 | 7,980.53 | 8,648.3 | 7,030.58 | |
| Sugar beet | 35,708.99 | 32,594.09 | 30,580.68 | 31,496.75 | 34,365.39 | 26,163.36 | 38,012.87 | 39,876.36 | 46,298.48 | 34,571.67 |
Understanding france crop harvest: potatoes
This metric tracks the harvested production weight of potatoes, encompassing all cultivated varieties including early, semi-early, and maincrop types, recorded at natural harvest weight without standard humidity conversions. It isolates root-crop potato production from all cereal grains and industrial root crops like sugar beet. The series measures the physical mass of tubers brought in from agricultural fields, excluding unharvested crops and damaged subterranean waste.
Interpreting this data requires a twelve-month annual perspective, because subterranean cultivation and seasonal lifting schedules render monthly or quarterly comparisons misleading. Initial estimates published directly after the lifting season are provisional, subject to revision as storage facility inventories and commercial processing declarations are finalized. A common analytical error involves comparing potato tonnage directly with dried grain harvests, ignoring the high water content inherent in fresh tubers.
Frequently asked questions
- Are sweet potatoes or yams included in this category?
- No, the series covers standard potatoes and excludes unrelated root vegetables.
- Does this metric apply a standard humidity adjustment like cereals?
- Potato production is typically recorded at natural harvest weight rather than a dry standard humidity level.
- Why might early potato harvest estimates be revised?
- Preliminary figures are based on field surveys, which are updated when commercial storage and processing records become available.