Utilised Agricultural Area 2022

In 2022, the area under cereals in Finland will be around one million hectares. The forage area was about 800 000 ha and the fallow area about 200 000 ha. The total area under cultivation on 43 300 farms is about 2.27 million hectares. In 2022, the area under food and fodder peas reached a record high of more than 34 000 ha. The area under peas was thus as large as the area under rape and larger than the area under potatoes.

Change % compared to 2021

• Area under winter wheat (35 600 ha) -35%.
• Spring wheat area (194 300 ha) +19%.
• Area under fodder barley (363 500 ha) -4%.
• Area under malting barley (66 000 ha) -6%.
• Rye area (20 000 ha) +9%.
• Potato area (19 600 ha) -4%.
• Oats area (336 300 ha) + 1%.
• Area under broad beans (11 400 ha) -8%.
• Pea area (34 200 ha) +50%.
• Area under coumina (16 600 ha) -10%.
• Area under field mustard (33 300 ha) +12%
• Rape area (9400 ha) +14%
• Forage grass (795 600 ha) +0%.
• Fallow area (207 400 ha) -2%

More crop areas by crop and crop group are available in the statistical database at national level and by ELY centres.