France intermediate consumption: agriculture
France intermediate consumption: agriculture stood at 84,948 EUR million in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1949 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate consumption | |||||||||||
| Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries | 84,948 | 81,235 | 84,039 | 81,030 | 68,785 | 62,692 | 65,010 | 63,133 | 62,536 | 60,589 | |
| Mining, quarrying and manufacturing | 1,146,579 | 1,151,259 | 1,220,083 | 1,254,087 | 981,869 | 817,149 | 932,060 | 918,886 | 875,841 | 804,458 |
Understanding france intermediate consumption: agriculture
Raw crops, cultivated livestock feed, specialized fertilizers, seeds, packaging materials, and livestock veterinary remedies consumed as operational inputs during primary production are registered within this ledger. The tabulation tracks all non-capitalized goods and market services absorbed by farming, forestry, and fishing operations before final produce reaches markets. Fixed assets such as heavy machinery and farm buildings are excluded, as their deterioration is recorded elsewhere under capital consumption. Compared to parallel branch ledgers covering industrial or service sectors, this row isolates biological and land-based operational costs, omitting factory fabrication inputs or office utility outlays unless directly tied to primary cultivation.
Interpreting these monetary values requires accounting for biological cycles and weather disruptions that alter input volumes independently of underlying economic demand. Early national accounts releases rely on preliminary agricultural survey estimates and trade data, which undergo revision as tax returns and detailed branch surveys are finalized. Chain-linked volume measures remove the distorting effects of volatile fertilizer, fuel, and crop prices, revealing physical absorption shifts across rebasing benchmarks. Analysts should avoid direct period-on-period comparisons without adjusting for seasonal harvest peaks and livestock production cycles. When evaluating productivity, dividing these material costs by gross output provides the intermediate ratio, though cross-country comparisons must account for differing national support subsidies and specialized subsidy write-offs.
Frequently asked questions
- What specific goods are included in agricultural intermediate consumption?
- The measure tallies seeds, animal feed, fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary products, fuel, and packaging materials consumed during farming and fishing operations.
- How does this series differ from agricultural output?
- Intermediate consumption captures the value of goods and services used up during production, whereas output measures the total market value of all primary agricultural goods produced.
- Why are weather fluctuations important when reading these figures?
- Unusual weather events rapidly shift input requirements for irrigation, heating, and disease control, creating volatility that does not reflect structural economic changes.