Structure of agricultural and horticultural enterprises 2020 (provisional)

• There were a total of 45,411 agricultural and horticultural enterprises in Finland in 2020. The number of farms decreased by roughly 1416 from 2019. 
• The average utilisable agricultural area was 50 hectares per farm. 
• The average area of leased arable land was 15 hectares per farm.
• In 2020, the average age of farmers was 53 years.
• Some 86% of all farms were family-run, 9% were farming syndicates, while farms owned by heirs and limited liability farms represented 2% each.
• Roughly 8% of farmers on privately owned farms were under 35 years old, while 30% of these farmers were over 60 years old.
• Less than 67% of farms had crop production as their production line, while 25% of farms were classified as livestock farms. The other Finnish farms are mixed farms with no single clear primary production line.

The data presented herein is preliminary. The publication date for final and regional data is presented in the Release calendar of Luke’s statistics.