Horticultural Statistics 2011 (provisional)

There were 4,304 horticultural enterprises in 2011.
Outdoor production area was 16,563 hectares and greenhouse area 411 hectares.
Regarding area, the most important outdoor vegetables were garden pea (2,998 hectares), carrot (1,663 hectares) and onion (1,115 hectares).
The total outdoor vegetable harvest was 186 million kilos, and a record-high 73 million kilos of it was carrot.
16 million kilos of berries were produced in an area of 6,073 hectares. Strawberry was the most important berry (13 million kilos and 3,386 hectares).
Greenhouse vegetable production was about 81 million kilos, of which 40 million was tomato, and a record-high 37 million kilos was cucumber.
98 million pots of pot vegetables were produced, marking an increase of 16.6 million compared to the previous year.
The cut flower area decreased to 13 hectares.
A top volume of tulips were forced: 63 million onions.