Julio García
Andalusia’s agricultural output was the highest in the EU in 2022 at 16 billion Euros, the European Statistical Office, Eurostat, reported.
In total, EU agricultural output amounted to 524 billion Euros in 2022, a value higher than animal production.
In percentages, agricultural output in 2022 was 55%, compared to 40% for animal production and the remainder (5%) came from agricultural services.
There were five regions in the EU classified at level 2 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2) whose total agricultural output exceeded €9 billion in 2022.
The highest was in Andalusia, Spain (€16 billion), followed by Brittany in France (€11 billion), Lombardy in Italy (€10 billion), Weser-Ems in Germany and Pays de la Loire in France (€9 billion each).
In most of the 225 EU NUTS 2 regions for which data is available, agricultural output accounted for more than half of the value of total agricultural output.
In fact, there were 60 regions across the EU where agricultural output contributed more than 70% of total agricultural output.
On the other hand, the value of agricultural production in Andalusia (€13 billion) was by far the highest and was more than double that of South Holland in the Netherlands and Champagne-Ardenne in France (almost €6 billion each).
In 64 EU NUTS 2 regions (28% of regions), the value of animal production (animals and animal products) exceeded 50% of total agricultural production.
The value of animal production in 2022 was highest in Brittany, France (just over €7 billion). This was followed by Weser-Ems in Germany (just under €7 billion) and the southern region of Ireland (almost €6 billion).
In the EU, at least 70% of agricultural production came from animal production: two regions in Ireland (south 79% and north and west 77%), Spain (Cantabria 75% and Principality of Asturias 72%) and Austria (Salzburg 73% and Vorarlberg 71%). There was one region in Italy (Aosta Valley/Vallée d’Aoste 76%), Portugal (Autonomous Region of the Azores 76%), Germany (Weser-Ems 75%), the Netherlands (Overijssel 73%) and Hungary (Budapest, 73%).
