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The European Commission has just published its report "Facts and figures on organic agriculture in the European Union". The report gives an overview of the situation of organic agriculture in Europe, for given years, according to data availability. Since detailed data is not available for all countries and varies within the Eurostat databases, other sources and own estimations were also used in this report.
Organic farms are active both in the arable crop and orchard as well as animal sectors. Figures show that at EU level both types of production are registering a positive trend for the studied years. Data shows that permanent pasture represents the biggest share of the organic area (58%), followed by cereals (20%) and permanent crops (15%). Sheep (42%) and cattle (34%) are the most important types of organic animal production at European level, after poultry. However, other types of animal production should be mentioned in the EU- 28, such as pigs, which registered 9%, and goats, which were at 7% of organic livestock in European Union in 2015.
The organic pig herd amounted to 0.978 million heads in 2015. The largest producers were Denmark (260 510 heads), France ( 219 812 heads) and Germany (190 471 heads). The organic pig sector still holds a very minor share in the EU pig market. It is much more important in the EU-15 with 947 219 heads and 97% of the organic pig production than in the EU-N13, with 31 340 heads, which is only 3% of the organic pig sector.
Thursday January 19, 2017/ EC/ European Union.
https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/
